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Sudanese and Arab newspapers reported that US President Donald Trump announced that Sudan was officially removed from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, after Khartoum transferred $ 335 million to Washington as agreed compensation.
Several writers and newspapers were optimistic about this step as a “diplomatic success” attributable to Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and his transitional government, seeing it as a prelude to Sudan’s return to the international community and the revival of its troubled economy.
Others considered that the price for removing Sudan from the American “blacklist” is normalization with the State of Israel, and that if Trump is sincere, then there are demands he must make on Sudan, otherwise it would be considered a “hoax” On the part of American politicians, the Sudanese government did not understand.
‘Diplomatic success’
The Al-Rakobeh newspaper says that Sudan is preparing “to take measures that would reactivate the crisis in the country, relying especially on possible debt relief of more than 60 billion dollars.”
The Sudanese newspaper adds that, “in the event that it becomes a reality, the transitional government will, through this step, turn the page of decades of boycott by the country’s international community under the government of Al- Bashir “.
The website of the Center for Sudanese Studies calls the lifting of US sanctions a “diplomatic success toward restoring the state.”
He believes that this step “does not mean anything other than the return of Sudan to the international community clean of the efforts of extremism and terrorism that the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to undertake to fight against the United States and Russia at the same time.”
The Center for Sudanese Studies hopes that this step can “eliminate some of the economic and diplomatic difficulties that the government of the revolution faced, and that still are.”
The site reads: “We do not believe that what Sudan gets by lifting its name from the list of countries that support terrorism and normalization with the world is nothing more than a solid primary foundation to employ this openness to build a foundation for new projects. development and rehabilitate productive state institutions that were destroyed by the defunct regime. “
In the Al-Rakobeh newspaper, Osama Dhay Al-Naim Muhammad says the move came “after persistent effort that knows no fatigue or boredom. In a year, Dr. Hamdok accomplished what the media machine (of the Brotherhood) had failed for twenty-seven years. “
The writer compares Hamdok to his transitional government and former President Omar Al-Bashir’s Salvation Government, saying that Hamdok’s team “came with what the Salvation Government did not bring … a failed effort and for twenty-seven years, Al-Bashir has been doing, reversing his results, Dr. Hamdok, and in just one year and changing the perception of Sudan. ” And to get the country and the people into the world spotlight. “
“Cunning of American Politicians”
As for Nasr Radwan in the Sudanese newspaper Al-Attiba, he quotes former US diplomat Cameron Hudson as saying that “Trump, after receiving the amount that Hamdok transferred to him, will not address Congress to discuss a bill to eliminate Sudan off the terror list unless Sudan normalizes with Israel, and then the matter will be discussed in Congress in a month and a half. “
The writer says: “So Trump lied to Hamdok when he told him that I will lift the ban immediately after you hand over the money to the bank, and this matter caused Hamdok to transfer the money in a hurry to mitigate the risks of the demonstrations of today, October 21, they can force him to resign from his post. “
Radwan believes that if Trump was sincere in his promise, Hamdok – after transferring the required amount – should ask the president of the United States to approach Congress to transfer one billion dollars “with an emergency order to solve the bread crisis, fuel and medicines in Sudan “, in addition to other aid for those affected by the floods, and request From Trump,” vaccines and techniques to improve exports of slaughtered meat and live sheep immediately “, and from Trump to” lift the embargo on the two billion dollar amount the United Nations had approved for Sudan to combat the Corona pandemic. “
The writer says: “This is what is supposed to happen unless Hamdok resigns and admits that Trump misled him, leaving the opportunity to another man who understands more of the deception of American politicians.”
The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar assures that the transitional government in Sudan “ adheres to the American prescription, to the maximum extent, to get rid of the ‘stain’ of terrorism and return to the ‘international community’. And their latest ‘innovations’ in this field are to transfer the compensation agreed with Washington to remove the country’s name from the list. ” Black. ”
The newspaper believes that this is “a step that puts a new pillar on the road to normalization with Israel, which the Sudanese authorities are gradually paving.”