After boom years, some Chinese firms run into trouble in crisis-hit Sudan


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Jul 2013

OMDURMAN, Sudan (Reuters) - When Chinese clothing wholesaler Chan Cui Xiao signed a deal with a Sudanese businessman to export colourful bed sheets to the African country he was confident of making good money.

A few months later he is in serious financial trouble - he shipped his goods to Sudan but did not get paid and has rushed to the country to try to track down his local business partner.

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