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Industry and Trade
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE
Elias Neyama Lel
Minister
Al Jamia St., PO Box 194, Khartoum
Tel: +249 183 772793
Fax: +249 183 773950
moftio@sudanmail.net
Sudan has a strategic location and is the largest
country in Africa with natural resources, in terms of
agricultural land and animal resources. It is a produc-
er of gold, oil, uranium, diamond and nickel amongst
others. All these activities represent a huge potential
for foreign trade. And thanks to these, Sudan can be
useful to the region, the Gulf and the world.
The main functions of the ministry of foreign trade
are to supervise the activities resulting from the use
of these resources: to manage the imports and ex-
ports, to participate to international fairs to promote
Sudan and its business opportunities outside, to
work on international agreements in trade (GAFTA,
WTO, EU…) and on policy making in trade activities
in Sudan.
In order to facilitate foreign trade, Sudan has to
achieve an internal reform and to improve its image.
This can be done in three phases:
• It is obligatory for Sudan to reconcile itself and to
find peace and stability
• It has to undertake an internal transformation,
going from a mentality of war into a culture of
peace so that Sudan becomes an institutional
state with a system of good governance,
transparency and efficiency
• A reflection on how to utilize the resources in
Sudan has to be made, regionally, locally
and internationally.
The ministry of foreign trade participates in many in-
ternational fairs to support Sudan, getting ideas from
experts to solve the local issues. In fact, for interna-
tional investors to utilize Sudanese resources there
must be an amicable environment for investment.
Some sanctions and isolation laws inherited from
wars are being suppressed.
Sudan now represents many opportunities for trade
and investments: it is going through a necessary
transformation, and into intensive regional and inter-
national dialogues. There have been a lot of efforts
made to have better relationships with the numerous
neighboring countries.
“Sudan has got the best business environment that
you could have. Whatever you need, you can find
it in Sudan: water, products, animals… it is much
nicer here, and far away from fertilizers. It is a hub
for trade that would benefit soon from a new interna-
tional airport which will be a boon for Sudan and for
those importing in Sudan.
Sudan is to maintain its membership in regional trade
agreements, working on its infrastructures in order to
develop its considerable potential for exports”.
Former Minister for Trade
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ADIYAT
Yassin Ahmed Mohammed Ali
Chairman
Kafori Block 2, Plot 125, Khartoum
Tel: +249 183 784956 / Fax: +249 183 778396
yasinali@adiyatdist.com
Activity: marketing and distribution
Date of Creation: 1992
Turnover: 110 million USD in 2010
No. Employees: 300
Adiyat was founded in 1992 and is still managed by
its founder. It began with importations, mainly from
Yemen and Egypt. It has now about 300 employees
and had a 70 million USD turnover in 2009. Adiyat
aims now to become the leading FMCG distribution
company in Sudan and is looking to expand. The
goal is to have a product distributed by Adiyat in eve-
ry Sudanese home. Its strategy is to find foreign part-
ners that would add value to the company. It already
has projects with foreign companies, in Europe. In
Sudan, the company already has 5 stores and a fleet
of more than 100 vehicles.