U.S. Extends Sudan Sanctions Review Period by Three Months
- Executive order says revocation depends on sustained progress
- Obama administration suspended some sanctions in January
Women filling jerrycans with water from dwell implemented by Polish Humanitarian Action.Somalia in the grip of an unprecedent and devastating food crisis. Drought has caused crops to fail and cattle to die in Somalia causing severe food and water shortages. Brutal conflicts in South Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria and Somalia have driven millions of people from their homes and left millions more in need of emergency food. In Somalia, where cholera outbreaks have killed hundreds of people, the looming famine threatens 6.2 millionmore than half the population. It threatens to bring back the grim reality of 2011, when 260,000 Somalis starved to death. For over two decades, Somalia has been in a state of complex humanitarian crisis, with socio-economic, political and environmental factors leading to widespread conflict, drought, more recently flooding and numerous other recurrent human and natural disasters. In recent days, thousands of Somalis have trekked to Mogadishu desperately searching food and aid. (Photo by
Maciej Moskwa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)The U.S. delayed by three months a decision on whether to permanently lift some sanctions imposed on Sudan, making the revocation dependent on the North African country sustaining progress in areas such as anti-terror cooperation.
President Donald Trump’s executive order extends the six-month review period established by the Obama administration on Jan. 13, which detailed conditions Sudan must meet for certain sanctions to be revoked, the State Department said in a statement.