{"id":3940,"date":"2019-12-06T01:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2019-12-06T01:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:02:12","slug":"united-states-sudan-agree-to-upgrade-diplomatic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/12\/06\/united-states-sudan-agree-to-upgrade-diplomatic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"United States, Sudan agree to upgrade diplomatic ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US State Department says two countries will proceed with first exchange of ambassadors in 23 years.4 Dec 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok meets with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC [Jim Watson\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The United States<\/a> and Sudan<\/a> plan to begin exchanging ambassadors again after a 23-year gap, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Wednesday in the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relations between Washington and Khartoum have improved since the overthrow in April of then-President Omar al-Bashir and the formation of a civilian transitional government in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement that the two countries would begin the process of exchanging ambassadors again came during Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s first visit to Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This decision is a meaningful step forward in strengthening the US-Sudan bilateral relationship, particularly as the civilian-led transitional government works to implement the vast reforms under the political agreement and constitutional declaration of August 17, 2019,” Pompeo said in a statement praising Hamdok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington and Khartoum had been at odds for decades. The US government added Sudan to its list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1993 over allegations that al-Bashir’s government was supporting “terrorist groups”, a designation that makes Sudan technically ineligible for debt relief and financing from the IMF and World Bank.ADVERTISINGinRead invented by Teads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But last month, a senior State Department official said Washington may remove Sudan from the list and that the two countries no longer have an adversarial relationship. Congress needs to approve such a removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Months of demonstrations over price hikes for fuel and bread and cash shortages led to an uprising against al-Bashir, who was toppled by the military in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan’s transitional government was formed in August and it agreed with the US that it could start engaging with international institutions while still on a list of countries deemed sponsors of terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US State Department says two countries will proceed with first exchange of ambassadors in 23 years.4 Dec 2019 The United States and Sudan plan to begin exchanging ambassadors again after a 23-year gap, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Wednesday in the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries. Relations between Washington and Khartoum have improved since… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}