Sudan to host forum on islamic micro-finance

The Centre of Islamic and Contemporary World Studies and the International Info-vision Center for Training in Malaysia will organize the Forum on the Islamic Micro-Finance at the Friendship Hall in Khartoum during February 21 -23. Meanwhile, the Director of the Centre of Islamic and Contemporary World Studies, Dr. Al-Saddig Ali Sayed Ahmed, said in a statement to SUNA that the forum will be held in the form of a comparative study on the microfinance experiments of Malaysia, Indonesia, Sudan, the Sultanate of Oman and Bangladesh, with a participation of experts from these countries. He said that the Forum will be held under auspices of the Central Bank, the Bank of Khartoum, Faisal Islamic Bank and the Saving and Social Development Bank. He said that the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Badr-Eddin Mahmoud, will address the inaugural sitting of the conference.