SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune – Remove Sudan from the terror list

19/2/2020: Sudan Tribune – Remove Sudan from the terror list, by David L. Phillips

 David L. Phillips, a Director of the Program on Peacebuilding and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, calls for the Sudanese government to adopt confidence-building measures to act as benchmarks for the process of Sudan’s removal from the US State Sponsor of Terrorism list.

 The benchmarks that Phillips highlights are: the enforcement of money-laundering restrictions and banking reforms; establishing control over the gold sector that has been a major source of corruption; and, concluding peace talks with armed rebel groups that would involve security sector reform and the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of non-state militias.

 In addition, to dismantle the remnants of Omar al-Bashir’s “corrupt” system, Phillips calls for the Sudanese government to invite hybrid courts with international judges and prosecutors to mitigate the lack of capacity for accountability of Sudan’s national courts.