SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – US Supreme Court to more damages against Sudan over embassy bombings in 1998

24/2/2020: Multiple sources – US Supreme Court to more damages against Sudan over embassy bombings in 1998

• Bloomberg, by Greg Farrell

• Reuters, by Andrew Chung

The US President Donald Trump administration is poised to argue before the Supreme Court that victims of 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in East Africa should be compensated by Sudan, which at that time harboured the attack’s plotters, Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members.

 The US Supreme Court “appeared open” to reinstating $4.3 billion in punitive damages against Sudan in lawsuits following the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.

 Sudan denies the allegations.