SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy - Sudan’s New Government Can’t Succeed If It Remains on the U.S. Blacklist

9/12/2019: Foreign Policy - Sudan’s New Government Can’t Succeed If It Remains on the U.S. Blacklist, by Hala al-Karib and El Sadig Hassan

Hala Al-Karib, regional director for the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, and El Sadig Hassan, the secretary-general of the Darfur Bar Association, argue that it is in the US’ best interests to delist Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism immediately.

Al-Karib and Hassan argue that the terror designation represents “an unjust economic and political burden” on the civilian government that is trying to untangle the business and military networks that maintain al-Bashir’s regime.

Therefore, the authors call for the international community to instead focus its efforts on helping to dismantle Sudan’s terrorist banking and operational networks, warning that Sudan’s democratic gains may be lost to a [terrorist] label “that no longer describes the country.”