Doing business in Sudan isn’t easy, but back in 2011, it should have been possible.
“We were working with major telecoms company Zain based out of southern Sudan at the time – before the country split in two,” explains Charlie Tryon, chief executive of Maris, an investment holding company that operates across east and southern Africa.
“Sudan was on the US’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list, but the south was exempt, so it should have been OK for us to work here.
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