The conference will offer a forum for the Sudanese private and public sectors to showcase opportunities in the oil, gas, power, infrastructure and agriculture sub-sectors.

The meeting will bring together over 200 technical experts, investors, donors, NGO and government officials, who will discuss the role regional investors and traders can play in the development of southern Sudan.

There are almost no roads connecting the south with the rest of the country and neighboring nations, and in most cases, the few available are either still mined or usable only during the dry season.

There is a rush for business in southern Sudan now. The conference was a huge success and very soon, there would be a ' tsunami' ... the foreign investors who attended the meeting would start scrambling for opportunities in the oil, gas, power, infrastructure and agriculture sub-sectors.

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent.

The fact that oil is remaining above $40 leaves me all the more convinced that core CPI will continue to climb higher, that we're on the verge of having the annual rate break above 2 percent,