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Khartoum, Dec.1 (IANS) Sudan’s Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed arrangements to remove the northeast African country from the list of states sponsoring terrorism in the coming weeks.
During a phone call with Pompeo on Monday, they also discussed developments in Ethiopia and the need for a peaceful solution to the conflict in a way that achieves regional peace and improves security in the region, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the council in a statement. statement.
On October 23, United States President Donald Trump announced his intention to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism once the African country deposits a settlement amount of $ 335 million for victims of the twin 1998 bombings at the two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
The decision was due to take effect on December 11.
Sudan had been listed as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1993. The other three nations on the list are Iran, North Korea and Syria, according to a CNN report.
Due to the designation, Sudan faces a series of restrictions including a ban on defense exports and sales and restrictions on foreign aid from the United States.
Simultaneous truck bomb explosions on August 7, 1998, at US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killed at least 224 people.
The attacks, which were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought al Qaeda to the attention of the international community for the first time and prompted the FBI to designate Osama bin Laden on its list of 10 most wanted fugitives.
According to the CNN report, Sudan, which was then under the leadership of the now-ousted Omar al-Bashir, protected Bin Laden and was found to have assisted al Qaeda operatives.
–IANS
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