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Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, says the United States is seeking to divide his country into five regions, more than a month after we said we had lifted its strict sanctions on the East African country.
“We have information that the desire of the United States is to divide Sudan into five states if we do not find protection,” the Sudanese president said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Omar al-Bashir added that his country was facing “great pressure” from the United States, which he accuses of “ravaging the Arab world”, referring to the situation in Iraq, Syria and the rest of the world. Yemen.
Twenty years ago, the United States imposed a strict trade embargo against Sudan, accusing Khartoum of serving as a refuge for Osama bin Laden.
