DAKAR, Nov 16 (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions on Sudan’s telecoms company Sudatel are having no effect at all as it pursues an expansion into Africa by seeking stakes in Nigerian and Congolese operators, its Chief Executive said on Friday.
Sudatel, which is 26-percent state-owned, featured on a list of 31 Sudanese companies barred in May from [...]
CAIRO, Nov 6 (Reuters) – New regulations governing U.S. sanctions against Sudan mean U.S. businesses can now operate more easily in the semi-autonomous south, which is struggling to develop after decades of war with Khartoum, analysts said.
An Oct. 31 notice from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has cleared up confusion arising from [...]
KHARTOUM, June 7 (Reuters) – Sudan’s boom economy is likely to take a downturn after Washington strengthened sanctions against Khartoum and Sudan’s central bank restricted foreign currency transactions, analysts and traders say.
Last week the United States imposed further sanctions on Sudan to pressure the government to halt the violence in its Western Darfur region and [...]
The Christian Science Monitor
This January, the US Treasury took an action aimed at a particular bank halfway around the world.
The move – putting Bank Sepah of Iran on a blacklist of institutions barred from access to America’s financial system – bore immediate fruit, Treasury officials say.
“Banks in the United States were legally required to cut [...]
International Herald Tribune
The Bush administration’s new sanctions against Sudan aim to squeeze the country’s economy by freezing Sudanese companies out of American financial institutions and curtailing their dollar transactions. U.S. government officials described the sanctions during recent interviews and press briefings as a significant move to raise the pressure on Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, [...]
CAIRO, May 30 (Reuters) – Amnesty International said on Wednesday U.S. sanctions alone would do little to stop violence in Sudan’s Darfur region and urged Arab states to press Khartoum to accept a hybrid peacekeeping force.
“The support of the entire international community is needed to have an impact on the Sudanese government,” Amnesty’s Secretary-General Irene [...]
KHARTOUM, May 30 (Reuters) – Sudan believes fresh U.S. economic sanctions will have minimal impact in Khartoum because the country has no direct trade ties with the United States, a senior Sudanese Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.
U.S. President George W. Bush imposed new unilateral sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for an [...]
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – President George W. Bush imposed new U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday and sought support for an international arms embargo out of frustration at Sudan’s refusal to end what he called a genocide in Darfur.
“The people of Darfur are crying out for help, and they deserve it,” Bush said.
Accusing the [...]
