Sudan Optimistic US Will Soon Remove it from Terror List

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok (AFP)
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok (AFP)
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Sudan Optimistic US Will Soon Remove it from Terror List

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok (AFP)
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok (AFP)

Sudan’s government has welcomed statements by the United States administration on removing it from its terror list after it was designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1993 under former US President Bill Clinton, cutting it off from financial markets and strangling its economy.

In a press statement on Saturday, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok stressed the transitional government’s adherence to continue working with US President Donald Trump’s administration to remove Sudan from the list and allows it to become part of the international community.

He praised the role played by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat known for his interest in Africa who urged US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “do everything" he can to support Hamdok and seize the chance “to build a new democratic partner in the region.”

On Thursday, Pompeo told the Committee he wants to delist Sudan, adding that legislation on a settlement should come before Congress “in the very, very near term.”

“There’s a chance not only for a democracy to begin to be built out, but perhaps regional opportunities that could flow from that as well,” he stressed.

On June 26, Pompeo held a phone call with Hamdok, during which they discussed means to strengthen the US-Sudan bilateral relationship and reviewed progress towards addressing the policy and statutory requirements for consideration of the rescission of Sudan’s State Sponsor of Terrorism designation.

Sudan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Haydar Badawi Sadig, for his part, said Pompeo’s remarks indicate that his country will soon be delisted.

He told Asharq Al-Awsat that his country welcomes the US willingness to end this issue and hopes to accelerate its implementation.

Sadig further pointed out that Pompeo and Coons’s keenness to remove Sudan from the terror list indicates both US executive and legislative bodies’ attempts to support the democratic transformation in Sudan.

“This would constitute an opportunity and a different model in Sudan’s troubled environment and is compatible with Sudan’s aspiration to be delisted,” he noted.



Israel Will Let Foreign Countries Drop Aid into Gaza, Israel Army Radio Says

A displaced Palestinian girl covers her head with a pot to protect herself from the scorching sun as she waits at a food distribution point in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
A displaced Palestinian girl covers her head with a pot to protect herself from the scorching sun as she waits at a food distribution point in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
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Israel Will Let Foreign Countries Drop Aid into Gaza, Israel Army Radio Says

A displaced Palestinian girl covers her head with a pot to protect herself from the scorching sun as she waits at a food distribution point in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on July 25, 2025. (AFP)
A displaced Palestinian girl covers her head with a pot to protect herself from the scorching sun as she waits at a food distribution point in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on July 25, 2025. (AFP)

Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying.

An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report.

The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.

Israel, which has been at war with the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza since October 2023, lifted that blockade in May but has restrictions in place that it says are needed to prevent aid from being diverted to armed groups.

In the first two weeks of July, the UN children's agency UNICEF treated 5,000 children facing acute malnutrition in Gaza.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday Gaza was suffering man-made mass starvation caused by a blockade on aid into the enclave.