SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AFP - ‘Suspect funds used to send military gear to Sudan neighbours’

15/9/19: AFP - ‘Suspect funds used to send military gear to Sudan neighbours’

 AFP reports that a witness in Omar Al Bashir’s trial backed up Al Bashir’s claim that the foreign funds found in his home were part of Sudan’s strategic relations with Saudi Arabia and were used as donations rather than private interests.

 Defence witness Sadiq Yakub, who represents a manufacturing unit owned by the Sudanese army, said that his army owned firm supplied military equipment to neighbouring countries using funds that Al Bashir alleged to have received illegally.