Saudi, UAE offer Sudan wheat

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are providing Sudan with 540,000 tons of wheat as part of aid promised following longtime leader Omar Al-Bashir’s overthrow, their state media said yesterday. Both countries “allocated 540,000 tons of wheat to the Sudanese people, meeting the population’s basic food requirements for three months”, the Saudi Press Agency and the UAE’s WAM news agency said. “The first and second batch comprising of 140,000 tonnes of wheat have already been shipped.” The wheat was part of $3 billion worth of aid pledged by the oil-rich Gulf states in April after Bashir’s ouster.