WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is set to ease sanctions against Sudan and broaden now limited talks with the long estranged African government, a U.S.-designated terrorism sponsor whose leader has been indicted on war crimes charges, The Associated Press learned Thursday. They said the administration will keep in place the broad set of economic and financial sanctions Sudan faces as a result of its "state sponsor of terrorism" designation. The penalties being suspended by the policy change could be re-imposed if Sudan backtracks on the progress it has made, they added. The department first labelled Sudan a terrorism sponsor in 1993. Sudan is one of only three countries still identified as such after Cuba was removed from the list in 2015.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2017 21:07 UTC