WASHINGTON (AP) — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has ordered that all negotiations with the United States be frozen until Oct. 12, after the Trump administration delayed its decision on whether to permanently lift sanctions on the North African country.
Al-Bashir announced the decision in a brief statement carried by the official SUNA news agency on Wednesday. He and his government had previously said they met all requirements and expected sanctions to be lifted, although activists and opposition disagreed.
Just before leaving office in January, former President Barack Obama issued an executive order lifting decades-old Sudan sanctions on a probationary basis.
Temporary sanctions relief took effect immediately, and was to become permanent on Wednesday unless the Trump administration acted to stop it.
President Donald Trump, in a new executive order on Tuesday, moved that deadline back by three months.
I am guessing that Trump doesn’t give a whit about the Sudan. This is just one more way for him to poke former President Obama in the eye.
"I hate Sudans! Stretch limousines or nothing!!!
Not now! The president’s busy dealing with an e-mail scandal.
This is what happens when you don’t have anyone working in the State Dept. I’m sure Trump would love to reinstate the sanctions but there is nobody there to actually do the work. BTW Putin Hates the US state dept., and what was one of Trumps first actions? Gut the State dept!