Egypt’s foreign minister wants more support for neighboring Sudan’s new civilian government, including getting it off the US list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Sameh Shoukry says Cairo is working with Washington and other countries to remove Sudan from the list.
Newly appointed Sudanese Foreign Minister Asma Abdullah speaking to Al Jazeera on September 8, 2019. (Screenshot: Al Jazeera)
He spoke at a press conference in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, beside the country’s first female foreign minister, Asmaa Abdalla.
She was sworn in a day earlier as part of the first Cabinet since the military ousted autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in April following mass pro-democracy protests.
The US named Sudan a state sponsor of terror in 1993, and the designation stuck through the rest of al-Bashir’s rule.
Sudan’s prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, said last week that he’d held a “long discussion” with the Trump administration on the matter.
— AP
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