KHARTOUM, 3 February 2020, TON: The United States on Sunday invited General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s sovereign council, to visit Washington. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that General al-Burhan will be visiting on his invitation. The development is part of bilateral ties since the army toppled President Omar al-Bashir last year. In December 2019, the two countries planned exchange of ambassadors after a gap of 23 year.

In 1993, the U.S. government added Sudan to its list of state sponsors of terrorism over allegations Bashir’s Islamist government was supporting terrorist groups, a designation that makes Sudan technically ineligible for debt relief and financing from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.