Roles of the Major Shareholders

Lonrho has a valid claim to a share of the credit for the success of the Kenana project, as does Kenana’s management team, supported by consultants and counsel. But without benevolent political and economic support from the Government of Sudan, the Kenana project would not have survived the onslaught of cost escalation, Lonrho’s financial and boardroom crises and the apathy and resentment shown in some quarters of the bureaucratic Sudanese Civil Service.