SABMiller to Brew Beer in Sudan

Global beer and soft drinks giant SABMiller has announced that it will launch a new lager in South Sudan in February 2009. It will be the first beer produced there since the region's last brewery was closed down 25 years ago. Alcohol was banned in Sudan in 1983 after the northern Khartoum-based government introduced Sharia law. However, a peace deal in 2005 allowed the country's south the right to a semi-autonomous secular government. SABMiller's subsidiary, Southern Sudan Beverages Limited, will carry out the project in Juba, the south's capital. SABMiller has committed US$37mn to building a new plant which will

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