Al-Bashir Back Home from Saudi Arabia
07 November, 2015KHARTOUM (SUDANOW) President Omer al-Bashir arrived back home Friday night after an official four-day visit to Saudi Arabia during which he held talks with King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz and witnessed signing of four financial agreements.
The 1.75 billion dollar agreements were signed Tuesday at the Saudi capital Riyadh to fund the construction of three dams Kajbar, al-Shriek and Dal in northern Sudan, electricity project for the Red Sea State, and cultivation of a one million acre-area in Atbara River, beside other projects for providing water to the rural areas.
According to the Sudanese Minister of Finance Basdr Eddeen Mahhmoud the construction of the dams is scheduled to be completed in a five-year period. The dams are expected to generate 1,400 megawatt of electricity, he added.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. Ibrahim Ghandour described the visit, in press statements at the airport, as successful and gave strong boost to the bilateral relations between the two countries and peoples.
Al-Bashir was received at the airport by the First Vice President Lt. Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih and a number of ministers and senior government officials.
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