The stigma of terrorism on the forehead of Sudan: Qatari support for Brotherhood strengthens Khartoum's isolation internationally

Sudan is seeking to end its global isolation by removing the country’s name from the list of state sponsors of terrorism that have stuck to Khartoum since the mid-1990s, but the Qatari hands that mess with it represent an obstacle to those endeavors and efforts.
Official attempts and efforts
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdouk says
that his country should return to building regional and international relations
in a way that serves the interests of all and guarantees stability and
security, pointing out that "removing Sudan's name from the list of state
sponsors of terrorism is a demand that the international community must
support”.
However, the attempts that the Sudanese
official crowned with a visit to the United States of America at the end of 2019
face great complications, because they require urgent and strict measures, at
the forefront of which are to rid the state institutions of the remnants of the
Brotherhood regime, and to permanently disengage from the international
organization of the Brotherhood.
A poll conducted by Sky News in October 2019
of the situation in Sudan showed that ridding the Sudanese state institutions
of the remnants of the Muslim Brotherhood and amending the laws established by
the Bashir regime, killing the hotbeds of corruption, and neutralizing the
mosques' platforms from extremist rhetoric are the first and most important
steps needed to push towards the country’s liberation from this nightmare that
has ruined Sudan's reputation and lost the economy hundreds of billions of
dollars.
The poll indicated that the international
community is well aware that the Sudanese people have no guilt for what
happened. Rather, the matter was in the entirety of the Muslim Brotherhood,
which was sponsored by the isolated regime Omar al-Bashir, and now Qatar plays
them as a pressure card to gain a position of control in the region.
Al-Bashir and Sudan: A guard at the door of
sanctuary
The al-Bashir regime’s harboring of radical
Islamist elements, extremists, and leaders of terrorist organizations such as
Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, as well as those wanted
internationally by their country’s governments, fleeing justice fighters, and
prosecutors involved in terrorist operations, have caused the country to be
included in the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Khartoum welcomed Osama bin Laden and his
extremist companions, harbored hundreds of terrorists around the world, and at
that time became a safe and custodian haven for these extremists of Asian and
African nationalities.
After years of this time, and with the
Brotherhood controlling matters in the country, Khartoum has turned into a
country of terrorist headquarters as well as a corridor for other countries
such as Somalia, in addition to establishing suspicious relations with Tehran,
Hezbollah, Hamas, and extremist factions in a number of countries.
This openness to terrorist groups opened the
door wide to Qatar, which has become the largest sponsor of terrorist groups
and the Brotherhood in the Arab region.
As a result of its inclusion on the lists of
countries sponsoring terrorism, Sudan has suffered direct and indirect
financial losses estimated at $ 350 billion from 1993 to 2019, with direct
losses ranging between 125 and 135 billion dollars, including a halt in the
flow of loans, facilities and international grants, in addition to losses of
exports.
Sudan has also lost a large percentage of its
air and sea fleets due to the lack of spare parts and the suspension of
maintenance work, in addition to the loss of entire periods of technological
developments that could be benefited from in the process of economic growth.
All of this led to huge financial and economic
imbalances, the most prominent of which was the deterioration of the Sudanese
pound's value, bringing the total losses of those imbalances to about 120
billion dollars.
Ban tax and penalties
Sudan's inclusion in the American list of
state sponsors of terrorism prevents Khartoum from obtaining any foreign
economic aid from international institutions such as the World Bank, and it
also imposes a ban on Sudan's imports of goods that have more than one use in military
aspects, which requires a 30-day notice from Congress.
On October 6, 2017, the American
administration lifted some economic sanctions on Sudan that lasted for nearly
20 years, through a plan of 5 tracks that Sudan follows in cooperation with the
United States, including improving anti-terrorism efforts, and Sudan patrolling
the Sudanese-Libyan border to combat the flow of terrorists and to prevent the
smuggling of weapons and other illegal activities.
The removal of Sudan from terrorism lists will
motivate investors, businessmen and international institutions to pump
investments, which made Sudan announce its welcome to the launch of the second
phase of the strategic dialogue with the United States, which was designed to
expand bilateral cooperation and achieve more progress in a number of areas of
mutual interest, especially after the success of the first phase, which
culminated in the lifting of economic sanctions on Sudan.
The US envoy to Sudan, Donald Booth, said:
"We want to make sure that the problem that we see does not continue, and
this depends on how long the Sudanese will take to do this," but he did
not specify a timetable for that.