We've drawn up a design for the currency, but it can't legally be implemented until May 2011. There is a body of thought within the Bank of Southern Sudan that they should print and circulate the currency immediately, because there's a paranoid fear that the south will cease accepting the old currency, or, even worse, that the south will reintroduce the old Sudanese dinar, which they used until 2007. There are these rumours that they didn't really burn the old currency, but it's up there in the vaults in Khartoum. I think that's very far-fetched, but there's a real possibility that they would stop accepting payments in Sudanese pounds from the south.
To establish a new currency that is convertible into foreign currency, people have to believe that it can be converted on demand into foreign currency--i.e., effectively, U.S. dollars. When I arrived in Sudan, in the Bank of Southern Sudan they had deposits in foreign banks, mostly in Kenya, of 500 million. They now have 400 million because in early July we discovered that the north had begun to pay us for the south's oil. Khartoum was paying the Bank of Southern Sudan 100 million Euros a month, and in July we instead got 100 million euros worth of soft currency, the Sudanese pound, which can't be spent abroad. So we lost, essentially, $100 million before that was sorted out.
Anyway, the currency issue is far from sorted out.
What was the second question?