SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Wall Street Journal - New Sudan Leader Moves to Settle With Families of Terror Victims
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sudan is weeks away from reaching a settlement with families of those killed in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, new Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok said in an interview.
Hamdok said that settling the cases related to the terrorist attacks, and cooperating with the US on counter-terrorism are the remaining obstacles for Sudan’s terror designation to be lifted.
On the latter, he said he could envision the US setting up a counterterrorism operation in Sudan, and that Sudan “would like to benefit from US experience, not only of training but intelligence sharing, gathering, equipment, training,” Mr. Hamdok said, adding that Sudan borders seven countries.
Hamdok added that Sudanese stability has the ability to bring regional stability, with Sudan having “Boko Haram on our west, al-Shabaab further east. We have al Qaeda and ISIS in the north and the sides.”