This archive report was first published on 6 December 2019.
Published on December 6, 2019, Sudan's new civilian prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, has embarked on ambitious reforms and peace initiatives since his transitional government took over in August after decades of military rule.
Hamdok, who is the first leader of Sudan to visit Washington since 1985, met with US officials to discuss the removal of Sudan from the US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
"Over the last two to three days here in Washington, the elephant in the room is the issue of the delisting of Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism," Hamdok said at the Atlantic Council, a think tank.
US officials, while voicing support for Hamdok, say that removal from the list is a legal process that requires a formal review over a six-month period.
US lawmakers who met Hamdok said that Sudan must reach a settlement with families of the victims of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as of the USS Cole in 2000.
