{"id":19265,"date":"2020-10-20T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T03:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2020-10-20T06:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T03:56:34","slug":"trump-set-to-remove-sudan-from-terrorism-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/20\/trump-set-to-remove-sudan-from-terrorism-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Set To Remove Sudan From Terrorism List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US President Donald Trump has said Sudan will come off a list of state sponsors of terror if it pays compensation of $335m (\u00a3259m).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok responded by saying the funds had been transferred but there was no immediate US confirmation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan has been listed since 1993 when al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden lived there as a guest of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The compensation relates to al-Qaeda’s 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attacks in Tanzania and Kenya killed more than 220 people and the compensation money is to be paid to “US terror victims and families”, Mr Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relations between the US and Sudan have improved since\u00a0President Omar al-Bashir was ousted after mass street protests last year.\u00a0Mr Bashir had ruled the conflict-ridden African nation for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dropping Sudan from the blacklist will be very welcome news in the country, where food, fuel and medicine are getting more expensive and scarce, Deputy Africa Editor Anne Soy reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did Trump say exactly?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a tweet, Donald Trump wrote:<\/a> “GREAT news! New government of Sudan, which is making great progress, agreed to pay $335 MILLION to U.S. terror victims and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Once deposited, I will lift Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. At long last, JUSTICE for the American people and BIG step for Sudan!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US president has the power to remove a nation from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Congress then has 45 days to object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan is currently one of four countries – along with Iran, North Korea and Syria – on the blacklist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Sudan’s position?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after the tweet, Mr Hamdok announced the money had already been transferred, Sudan’s state TV reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said the move marked “the final requirement to secure” Sudan’s removal from the blacklist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Hamdok said Sudan was looking forward to the official notification by the US authorities. Being on the list, he said, had cost the country “too much”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 7 August 1998, trucks laden with explosives detonated almost simultaneously outside the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 200 people died in the Kenyan capital and at least 11 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city. Thousands of people were injured in the bombings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of the victims were civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump has said Sudan will come off a list of state sponsors of terror if it pays compensation of $335m (\u00a3259m). Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok responded by saying the funds had been transferred but there was no immediate US confirmation. Sudan has been listed since 1993 when al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":19266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[1828,148,3331],"class_list":["post-19265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-omar-al-bashir","tag-sudan","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}