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Negotiations on the withdrawal of Sudan from the US checklist of states that help terrorism proceed. A significant retreat for the nation's financial system, however one vote suggests a fast and optimistic end result: Donald Trumps. On Twitter, the US president assured on Monday night, October 19, of an impending settlement.…

Sudan signed a "historic" memorandum of understanding on Thursday with General Electric, the US power generation group. The deal comes after decades of US sanctions, with Sudan since 1993 on the US blacklist of countries supporting terrorism. Between 1992 and 1996, the Sudanese dictator Omar-al-Bashir had really welcomed the leader of the jihadist group al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden.…

Will Sudan normalize its relations with Israel? In any case, more and more sources, especially Israeli and Sudanese media, confirm. According to them, you will put a lot of pressure on Khartoum so that the Sudanese accept an agreement: an approximation to the Hebrew state in exchange for a package that includes the withdrawal of sanctions and financial support. According to these same media, the…

Following the dissemination of the declassified portion of emails from former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a wide-ranging controversy invaded the affected African countries, including Libya. The contents of the emails deleted by Hillary Clinton in 2016 relate to the origins of the 2011 revolution at the time of the Arab Spring, visibly sponsored by international powers, led by Washington. Ahmad Kadhaf al-Dam, who is leading the fight for the Libyan front, has indicated that he will attack Mrs Clinton for American…

It is a new look at the underside of American foreign policy. In recent days, Mike Pompeo, the head of US diplomacy, has finally promised to declassify emails sent at the time by Hillary Clinton, who was sitting between 2009 and 2013, under pressure from President Donald Trump under President Donald Trump during President Donald Trump. The content of some of these emails is already known: it allows us to better understand the position of the United States at the time of the Arab Spring, especially towards the Muslim…

In an interview with the Financial Times published on Sunday, October 11, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok struck his fist on the table. The head of government accuses the Americans of "paralyzing" the country's economy and keeping it on the blacklist of countries that support terrorism and even hamper its democratization. For the Sudanese Prime Minister, to keep his country on US blacklist is unfair. Not only because it is more than 20 years since Osama bin Laden was expelled from the country - it was the fact…

Author of a corpus of thirty books in which fiction co-exists with poetry and essays, the Congolese Alain Mabanckou is also a professor of literature in California. In the fall, the author publishes "Rumors of America," a collection of essays, halfway between sociological reflections and journalistic chronicles that tell American life and its turbulences. “I came to literature from excessive loneliness and lived in Africa as the only child who carried amazement in his dreams. And then there was this kind of fear of…

The U.S. Secretary of Defense ended his visit to North Africa on Friday. Mark Esper was in Morocco after passing Tunisia and Algeria during the week. This three-day tour was intended to strengthen military cooperation, the fight against jihadism and security in the region. "Our alliance is strong and made to last," said…

Normalization with Israel, desired by the United States before next November, the date of the presidential election, is not realized in Sudan. Neither US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Khartoum last August nor Abu Dhabi's talks with US officials last week proved fruitful. The Sudanese authorities say they are under…

The US Secretary of Defense continues his three-day visit to North Africa, which is also his first trip to the African continent. After Tunisia yesterday, Mark Esper made a stopover in Algiers on October 1, before heading for Morocco tomorrow. No Pentagon leader has visited Algeria since Donald Rumsfeld in 2006. The goal is to strengthen cooperation between the two countries on security issues.…