Saudis To Supply Sudan With Oil To Help Ease Fuel Shortages

Saudi Arabia will supply Sudan with oil in the next five years to help it alleviate a severe fuel crunch in the country, Sudan’s Oil Minister Abdul Rahman Osman said on Monday after a visit to Saudi Arabia. “We returned from Saudi Arabia after negotiations with the Saudi side to supply Sudan with oil for five years,” AFP quoted Osman as telling reporters in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. “Sudan will receive 1.8 million tonnes of oil in the first year. After that each year the quantity will be raised by seven percent,” the oil minister noted.