Sudan

Joint investment firm to boost Saudi-Sudan links
- MENAFN
- 04 April 2013
Joint investment company will harness Sudan's resources in agriculture and livestock in line with the foreign economic policy of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
Chinese businessmen slow to exploit potential for farming in Africa
- SCMP
- 31 Mar 2013
The Chinese government has long encouraged businesses to invest in agriculture abroad, and Xi Jinping's first foreign trip as president in the past week involved visits to three African countries.
Pillage organisé en Mauritanie
- Afrik.com
- 26 February 2013
En trois ans, l’auto-proclamé « Président des pauvres » a établi un quasi-monopole du business : état des lieux des pillages du pays et présentation des hommes du président.
Government invests in Sudan farming plan
- Today's Zaman
- 07 February 2013
The Turkish Ministry of Food and Animal Husbandry purchased 5,000 square kilometers of farmland in the country's fertile south, where it secured land rights for the next 99 years
Minister of Agriculture meets Iranian Ambassador
- SUNA
- 02 February 2013
Sudan's Minister of Agriculture discusses aspects of joint cooperation with Iran in sugar beet crops, cotton, oilseeds and rice, expressing his ministry's keenness to remove all obstacles impeding the work of investors.
Briefing: Transformer les déserts égyptiens en terrains agricoles
- IRIN
- 15 January 2013
Une délégation du ministère de l’Agriculture de l'Egypte se prépare à se rendre au Soudan cette année pour examiner la possibilité de cultiver du blé sur un total de 470 000 hectares de terres soudanaises.
Egypt: Turning deserts into fields
- IRIN
- 10 January 2013
A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to visit Sudan later this year to examine the possibility of growing wheat on as many as 470,000 hectares of Sudanese land.
Kuwait, Saudi eye Sudan farmland
- Kuwait Times
- 03 January 2013
Sudan launched a major dam project on Tuesday to boost power supply and agricultural irrigation, a plan officials hope will foster farmland exports and attract more Gulf investment to the African country as it battles an economic crisis.
Kenana to invest US$ 2 bn in five years
- ANBA
- 30 November 2012
Kenana Sugar Company is the head of the spear of the Sudanese project for agricultural development. While governments and Arab companies discuss strategies for the sector, the organisation plans to invest US$ 2 billion over the next five years in several expansion projects.
CIFG, Kenana launch giant agricultural investment fund at regional level
- Sudan Vision
- 22 November 2012
Kenana Sugar Company announces the launch of MAHASEEL Agricultural Investment Fund, an agricultural investment fund with estimated $1 billion in collaboration with CIFG an international financial group, a subsidiary of France's Groupe Caisse d'Épargne.
Saudi to invest over US$11bn in farmland projects
- Arabian Business
- 20 September 2012
Saudi Arabia has invested around 40 billion riyals in agricultural and livestock projects in the Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Sudan, says chairman of the agricultural investment committee at the Saudi Council of Chambers.
Mawashi puts greater focus on food security
- Gulf Times
- 07 September 2012
Mawashi, Qatar’s livestock company, plans to invest in industrial agriculture and food sources outside Qatar to serve the vision and objectives of the Qatar National Food Security Programme, it was announced yesterday.