{"id":239287,"date":"2026-07-22T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-criticism-mounts-over-sudan-turkiye-suakin-gas-terminal-memo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:27:41","slug":"sudan-criticism-mounts-over-sudan-turkiye-suakin-gas-terminal-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-criticism-mounts-over-sudan-turkiye-suakin-gas-terminal-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Criticism Mounts Over Sudan-T\u00fcrkiye Suakin Gas Terminal Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Amsterdam \/ Suakin \u2014 <em>The signing of a memorandum of understanding between Sudan&#8217;s Sea Ports Corporation and the Turkish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argaz.com\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Argaz<\/a> Group to build the first specialised gas terminal in Suakin on Sudan&#8217;s Read Sea Coast sparks widespread debate and raises questions about the nature of the deal, as well as the government&#8217;s lack of transparency over why the project is not put out to competitive tender for qualified international companies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The corporation&#8217;s director-general, El Gilani Mohamed, says the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607220395.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam \/ Suakin \u2014 The signing of a memorandum of understanding between Sudan&#8217;s Sea Ports Corporation and the Turkish Argaz Group to build the first specialised gas terminal in Suakin on Sudan&#8217;s Read Sea Coast sparks widespread debate and raises questions about the nature of the deal, as well as the government&#8217;s lack of transparency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,11451,7168,15529,21241,257,254,54915,4708,1613,54914,9237],"class_list":["post-239287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-criticism","tag-gas","tag-memo","tag-mounts","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suakin","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanturkiye","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}