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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Pompeo Invites Head of Sudan's Sovereign Council to Visit Washington

The head of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC), Abdul Fattah al-Burhan (Photo: Yasser Haroun)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo invited General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan's sovereign council, to visit Washington, the council said on Sunday.

The visit will be "to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of developing them", it said in a statement.

Pompeo invited Burhan for the visit during a phone call and while no date for the trip was set, the council noted that Burhan "promised to fulfil it soon".

Washington and Khartoum had been at odds for decades, but ties relations have improved since Bashir's overthrow in April 2019 and the formation of a civilian transitional government four months later.

In December, Pompeo said that the two countries planned to begin exchanging ambassadors after a 23-year hiatus, Reuters reported.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other cabinet ministers have visited Washington since the transitional government was sworn in.

In 1993, the US government added Sudan to its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation that makes Sudan technically ineligible for debt relief and financing from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

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