SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - U.S. urges Sudan to pay compensations before to remove it from terror list
Sudan Tribune reports that the US has urged Sudan to pay financial compensation to family members of people killed in militant attacks, before Sudan can be removed from the US list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
US State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said that a meeting between Sudanese foreign minister Asma Abdallah and US under-secretary for political affairs David Hale, saw the latter underscore that compensation for victims of terrorism is a priority for the US government.
Ortagus added that the matter is a Sudanese state responsibility, with negotiations focusing on the sum of compensation and protecting Sudan from future lawsuits.
On 13 January 2020, the US Supreme Court declined a Sudanese appeal on the payment of $3.8 billion in damages to family members of people killed or injured in al Qaeda’s bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.