August 26, 2020 (Khartoum) The American Foreign Policy magazine, quoted influential members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, as saying that the administration of US President
Donald Trump has reached a preliminary agreement with the new transitional government in Sudan, requiring Khartoum to pay compensation of $ 335 as a last step to remove Sudan from the list of
countries sponsoring terrorism.
The settlement comes as part of a series of long-standing claims by the families of the victims of the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 and the battleship “US Cole” near
the shores of Yemen in 2000. However, the American government accuses the ousted regime of Omar al-Bashir of being involved in the bombing.
According to Foreign Policy Magazine , this deal will help Sudan regain its natural position in the international community, and will allow foreign investment and aid to be poured into the country’s
ailing economy.
Removal of Sudan from the U.S terror list, will also pave the way for further normalization in relations between the two countries after decades of tension and partial boycott.
Meanwhile, the fragile transitional government of the Sudanese Prime Minister ,Abdullah Hamdok, has faced increasing pressure since he took power, following the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir’s regime in a
popular revolution in April 2019. .
Foreign Policy indicated that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Tuesday with Hamdok ways to support the democratic transition and efforts to remove Sudan from the list of countries
sponsoring terrorism, and he also quietly pressured Sudan to normalize relations with Israel, according to US officials.
However, in a statement issued by the Sudanese government, Hamdok told Pompeo that the transitional government does not have authorization to decide on normalization with Israel.