KHARTOUM, 30 April, 2021 (TON): Sudan has reportedly suspended plans for Russia to open a naval logistics base in a key Red Sea port.
Russia in December announced the signing of a 25-year deal to build the logistics hub for nuclear-powered warships and up to 300 military and civilian personnel in Port Sudan.
It would have been Russia’s first naval base in Africa and its second on foreign territory after Syria’s Tartous.
But Sudan has suspended the naval base agreement signed by Moscow with the former regime, says media.
However, Sudan, suffering from civil war, the 2011 secession of oil-rich South Sudan and three decades of U.S. sanctions, has been under a transitional civilian-majority government since the April 2019 ouster of longtime president Omar Bashir.
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