Sudan's Hamdok seeks removal from US terror blacklist
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The PM has called on the US remove Khartoum from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. PHOTO | EBRAHIM HAMID | AFP
What you need to know:
Sudan was placed in the list in 1993 on suspicions that President Omar al Bashir was funding militias in unnamed neighbouring countries
As a result, the country cannot mobilise financial aid or renegotiate debt.
It is now on the list together with Iran, North Korea and Syria while Cuba, Iraq, Libya and South Yemen have been at one time been on the list but later removed.
