Khartoum state  Governor, Lt Gen Abdul Rahim Hussein has said the budget for the coming fiscal, 2018

, faces huge challenges including an increase of over 36% compared to the previous fiscal 2017, forecasting it to stand at over 23 billion pounds.
The governor who was addressing the Khartoum Legislature council last week pointed that his government would focus on how to improve the living conditions of the people in the state, with regard to services and balance development.
He added more attention would be given to investment and increasing the capacity and efficiency of the existing projects with the view to achieve food security.
“the government would also pay attention to environment, garbage collection and rural development as well as infrastructure and production increasing projects” concluded the governor.