KHARTOUM (SUDAN) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is likely to visit Sudan in the coming days, said a Sudanese government official on Sunday.
Since the ouster of former leader Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, Sudan has been normalising relations with the United States, but is still looking for a removal from a list of countries the US has considered as state sponsors of terrorism.
Pompeo is also due to visit Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Tuesday post an agreement between the two countries this month to make full relations.
The Sudanese official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, refused to give details about the visit.
For Sudan’s transitional military-civilian ruling council and the government of technocrats that operates under it, ending the terrorism listing is of primary concern.
The listing can be traced to 1993 and makes Sudan, which is already reeling under a deep economic crisis, technically not qualified for debt relief and financing from international lenders.
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