The Clash Report posted on 23 March 2026 an article titled "UAE Tries to Rewire Supply Routes to Sudan's RSF via Ethiopia & Central African Republic."
The United Arab Emirates is restructuring its logistical network to sustain supply lines to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, shifting routes through Ethiopia and the Central African Republic as existing corridors in Chad and Libya face pressure.
The Atlantic Council posted on 16 May 2024 a commentary titled "The Red Sea Attacks Highlight the Erosion of US Leadership in the Region" by Jean-Loup Samaan.
The author spells out why the United States had difficulty in finding partners for Operation Prosperity Guardian, which is designed to prevent or defeat Houthi missile and drone attacks from Yemen on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Comment: While the response to joining Operation Prosperity Guardian was disappointing, the fact remains that collective efforts, especially the one led by the United States and the United Kingdom, have been instrumental in significantly reducing attacks on international shipping by the Houthis. In the end, the United States will be judged on its ability to end the attacks, not the number of countries it signed up for the operation.
World Politics Review posted on 26 October 2020 a commentary titled "Sudan's Normalization with Israel Looks Like an American 'Quid pro Quo'" by Frederick Deknatel.
Sudan's agreement to begin the process of normalizing relations with Israel and paying compensation to the victims of the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole look like a Trump administration quid pro quo for removing Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and receiving US humanitarian assistance.
The National Interest published on 24 October 2020 an article titled "Why the Muslim Middle East Supports China's Xinjiang Crackdown" by Adam Lammon.
The author suggests that Arab countries, including Morocco and Egypt in North Africa, and non-Arab Muslim countries in the Middle East support China's crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang for several reasons. First, China has strong economic ties with most of these countries and can use these ties for political leverage. Second, the leaders of these countries loathe political Islam, which they associate with terrorism. They are willing to accept China's explanation for the crackdown on Uyghurs as a counterterrorism campaign.
The Washington Post published on 23 October 2020 an article titled "Sudan and Israel Agree to Normalize Ties, the Third Such Accord since August" by Anne Gearan and Steve Hendrix.
President Trump announced on 23 October 2020 that Sudan and Israel agreed to begin the process of normalizing relations. This follows agreement by the Trump administration to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for depositing $335 million for the victims of attacks during the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole off Aden.
My comment: There is no link between removal of Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and Sudan's normalization of relations with Israel except that it was a useful ploy by the Trump administration to put pressure on Sudan to achieve a domestic political victory before the November election. The fact that Sudan is now in the process of normalizing relations with Israel is a realistic and positive move so long as it does not upend the process toward democratic government in Sudan during a politically sensitive period in the country.
Foreign Policy posted on 18 October 2020 an article titled "Trump to Remove Sudan from Terrorist List, Following Behind-the-scenes Pressure on Israel" by Robbie Grammer.
President Trump announced the US will remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism after it agreed to pay $335 million to the families of victims of terrorist attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
The Atlantic Council blog posted on 19 October 2020 a commentary titled "Sudan Is Removed from the Terror List. Now What?" by Cameron Hudson.
While this move will do little in the short run to improve Sudan's ailing economy, it is an important political victory for Sudan. The author argues the US needs to follow up this decision by taking steps that will help ensure a transition to democratic governance in Sudan.
There is an assumption that Sudan will eventually take the controversial decision to recognize Israel, something the US pushed for from the beginning.
USIP posted on 24 August 2020 a commentary titled "Normalizing Sudan-Israel Relations Now Is a Dangerous Game" by Payton Knopf and Jeffrey Feltman.
The authors explain that US efforts to push Sudan to recognize Israel in exchange for removing Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, which has nothing to do with the recognition of Israel, is a mistake. Sudan is currently too fragile to play this game.
The authors are correct. While Sudan's recognition of Israel would eventually be a positive development, this is nothing more than a ploy by the Trump administration to curry favor with the US electorate before the 3 November election.
