Deal #9879

will include an industrial zone, an international airport and an agricultural zone covering more than 400,000 acres

Port-The project would include an economic zone, an airport and an agricultural zone of 400,000 feddans (415,000 acres).

The deal was signed just over a week after Sudan's military and civilian political parties signed a framework agreement aimed at forming a civilian government and launching a new political transition after an October 2021 coup. The signing of the agreement came a week after Sudan's ruling military leadership signed a framework agreement with several civilian groups on Dec. 5 that is supposed to pull the country out of the morass it has been in since the October 2021 putsch led by the army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhane.