Sudan expects US to lift sanctions as conditions met

Sudan is confident the US will lift sanctions imposed against Khartoum, saying it had met all the required conditions.

"Sudan has fulfilled all the necessary conditions relating to the road map and the US administration is a witness to that and therefore we expect the sanctions to be lifted," Sudan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hamed Momtaz said.

The US government last month said it was still undecided on whether to lift a raft of penalties imposed against the African country, first for its perceived support for global terrorism and later for its violent suppression of rebels in Darfur.

President Donald Trump's administration in July postponed a decision on the lifting of the sanctions for three months. The new deadline for that decision is October 12.

The US said that Sudan still had to resolve its internal conflicts and to let more aid into Darfur and other rebellious areas, among other conditions.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, an army colonel who took power in a 1989 coup, is separately accused of genocide and other crimes in his own country.

(CGTN)