Sudan offered Russia to create an economic zone on the Red Sea Sudan offers to create a free economic zone on the coast of the Red Sea and invites Russia to participate, said the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of the Republic of Sudan Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan. "We can create a free economic zone in the Red Sea, which Russia can use to create warehouses for fuel and wheat," he said in a meeting with Putin. "We have a great demand for wheat and fuel in Sudan. There is demand throughout the African continent. There is a railway line in Sudan, there are plans to develop it from the port of Sudan to Chad. Supply chains can be created along it, and Russia can participate," Al-Burhan added.