Washington continues to hold out on the gesture that would mean the most to the transitional government
Sudan’s government calls itself transitional, but what it is attempting is transformational. In the latest raft of reforms announced earlier this month, it abolished a law against apostasy, ended punishment by flogging, criminalised female genital mutilation, dropped rules requiring women to get a permit from a male family member to travel with their children — and loosened prohibitions on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
It is also being encouraged by the Trump administration, which has upgraded diplomatic ties. After a gap of more than two decades, Washington now has a Sudanese ambassador. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said the US will appoint an ambassador to Khartoum. There are other voices in Washington counselling caution. Keeping Sudan on the list, they say, gives the US leverage over the military, to ensure that it doesn’t undermine the democratising process. Better to save delisting as the final reward, for an elected government after the three-year transition has been completed.
Smoothing the way for investment and aid, for instance, would allow Hamdok to rebuild Sudan’s economy, which was decrepit even before the pandemic.
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