Exclusive-Sudan's Hamdok says he returned to safeguard economic gains

FILE PHOTO: Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) address the media at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Monday that maintaining the economic gains from the past two years was among the reasons he had decided to return to his post, under a deal with the military nearly a month after he was removed in a coup.

In an interview with Reuters at the Khartoum residence where he had been held under house arrest following the Oct. 25 military takeover, Hamdok https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/sudans-abdalla-hamdok-2021-11-21 said he believed a technocratic government he is expected to appoint would have a chance to improve living standards.