Sudan’s name has been excluded from the US list of countries sponsoring terrorism. The US Embassy in Khartoum officially announced it on Monday.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the Facebook post made by the embassy said that the 45-day period of congressional notifications has come to an end and the foreign minister has signed it.
Sudan’s provisional government signed a peace deal with several terrorist groups last month to end the years-long civil war that killed millions of people in the country.
It is worth mentioning that on 23 October, US President Donald Trump announced that Washington will remove Sudan from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Since 1993, Sudan has been included in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Apart from this, Iran, North Korea and Syria are named in this list. Being in this list, Sudan was facing many restrictions which would not have to be done now. India welcomed the move of the US and hoped that there will be a democratic change in Sudan and will contribute to increase development, peace and security.
On August 7, 1998, there were frequent truck bombings at the US embassies in Kenya, Nairobi, Tanzania and Dar-es-Salaam. About 224 people died in this. Egypt had links to these attacks with local groups of Islamic Jihad. Only after this did the attention of the international community turn to Al Qaeda and the FBI named Osama bin Laden in its Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. At that time, the kingdom of Sudan was in the hands of Omar al-Bashir. Osama bin Laden was also sheltered here and Al Qaeda also got support from here.
