SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Just Security - Sudan Takes Two Big Steps toward Normalizing Relations: USS Cole and Bashir
John Hursh, the Editor-in-Chief of International Law Studies at the US Naval War College, argues that Sudan’s removal from the US State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) list will transform its US relations from subservience into reciprocity.
Hursh notes that while successive Sudanese governments have denied responsibility for the al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the current government has agreed to pay compensation “only to satisfy the U.S. condition for its removal from the SST list.”
Nonetheless, Hursh argues that the US President Donald Trump administration’s lack of urgency in removing Sudan from the SST list threatens to stall Sudanese progress towards peace and democracy.