• The Saudi-Sudanese Investment Forum - Is it a rehearsal for other Arab investments?
    • Sudan Vision
    • 14 April 2013

    President Omar Al-Beshir has made orders for removal of all impediments and facilitation of the procedures for Saudi Arabian investors aiming to produce food in Sudan, including through land leases

  • Egypt aims to become self-sufficient in sunflower oil by using farmland provided by neighboring Sudan
    • Global Post
    • 09 April 2013

    Private Egyptian investors to plant sunflower on 210,000ha of land earmarked for joint agricultural projects under a deal reached by President Mohamed Mursi and President Hassan Omar al-Bashir.

  • 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.

  • Sign the petition to stop the deployment of police/military and criminalisation of peasants struggling for their land against oil palm plantation company in Buol Regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia

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