Sun 27 September 2020:
Burhan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a surprise meeting in Uganda earlier this year
Sudan does not want to link its removal from a US “terrorism list” that is hindering access to foreign funding for the country’s economy with the normalisation of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday.
Sources said this week that US officials indicated in talks with a Sudanese delegation they wanted Khartoum to follow the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain and open ties with Israel.
Sudan’s surging inflation and plummeting currency have been the biggest challenges to Hamdok’s transitional administration, which rules with the military since al-Bashir’s removal.
Sudan was put on the US list in 1993 because the United States believed al-Bashir’s government was supporting armed groups.
But many in Sudan consider this is undeserved since al-Bashir was removed last year and Sudan has long cooperated with the US on counterterrorism.
The White House and the State Department declined to comment when asked about the status of negotiations.
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