Posted on 12/22/2020 4:14:35 PM PST by xomething
After 27 years as a global pariah, Sudan has been officially removed from the American State Sponsor of Terrorism list.
The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum made the announcement in a Facebook post, saying that the statutory 45 days had lapsed since President Trump gave Congress notice of the administration's intent to delist Sudan, so the declaration could now come into effect.
udan was first added to the list in 1993 after the United States said it had provided assistance to terrorist groups. The country gave safe haven to Osama Bin Laden and it was implicated in the twin bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and then in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.
But last year, a popular uprising led to the ouster of the Islamist government of Omar al-Bashir. The leadership who replaced him promised a new era for the country. Getting off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list became a priority, not just because it would allow Sudan to rejoin the international community, but because it would provide opportunities to escape a deep economic crisis.
Across Sudan, a lack of foreign exchange makes fuel scarce, so people line up for blocks to obtain it. In the capital, Khartoum, residents stand outside bakeries for hours, waiting for bread. It means regular Sudanese view these international treaties with suspicion, because their worries are much more pressing.
On Thursday, Ismail Yasin and his wife, Selma Abdullah, set up a tea shop on an abandoned plot on the banks of the Nile.
"Right now in Sudan, we're living through the worst condition," Yasin said. "People have nothing left but to cry."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
I always post official US diplomatic business on Facebook...
... and given a sh*tload of US taxpayer money in the “budget bill” to boot...
Yay. :-|
Is Minneapolis/St. Paul on a do-not-travel list?
It should be... It’s not the most wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it is working on it...
After 27 years as a global pariah, Sudan has been officially removed from the American State Sponsor of Terrorism list.
So. They burned some churches to celebrate.
Wasn’t Winston Churchill stationed in Sudan when he came up with his warning about islam?
If I were President Trump and they pulled this crap on me I would do as much damage as was humanly possible before I left the up White House. I would do list every terrorist organization everything the whole works. Then let em try figure it out
The Fuzzy- Wuzzy!
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