SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP – Sudan seeks to end terror designation in USS Cole settlement

13/2/2020: AP – Sudan seeks to end terror designation in USS Cole settlement, by Noha Elhennawy

 AP reports that Sudan will has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, a key step in having the U.S. remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

 Faisal Mohammed Salih, Sudan’s information minister and interim government spokesman, also said that the Sudanese government is still in negotiations to reach settlements with families of victims of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

 Salih also told the AP that the US has set the overhaul of Sudan’s security apparatus as another condition to remove Sudan from the terror list.

 “The Americans believe Sudan’s support for terror was carried out through its security apparatus,” Salih said. “So they want to be assured that there has been a radical change” in the way it operates, he added.