SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AFP - Sudan's PM calls for US to drop 'terror' blacklisting

3/9/19: AFP - Sudan's PM calls for US to drop 'terror' blacklisting

AFP reports that Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok called for the US to drop Sudan from its state sponsor of terrorism list, insisting that it is crucial to Sudan’s economic revival,

 Sudan has been "in negotiations with the Americans and (we) expect there would be progress on removing Sudan from the terrorism list," Hamdok said at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

 Hamdok stressed that Sudan's long term economic revival is dependent on building a suitable environment for boosting the manufacturing sector, which is linked to Washington's blacklist of Sudan.

 Maas said that Sudan’s integration into the global economy is essential, but acknowledged that the process will “depend largely on development and reforms in Sudan over the coming weeks and months".