President Trump on why Sudan was removed from the travel ban pic.twitter.com/ipEAS2F5XP
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Being as we live in his fiefdom now, the first thing I noticed was that Granpa Comment Section sounds like he’s sundowning again. But seriously — why is Sudan in, and Chad out? Apart from “gotta have some bunch of black Africans to kick around”, which is I assume Steven Miller’s advice?
I guarantee the answer is 'the Saudis need Sudan to keep sending troops to Yemen and they let me touch the Orb.' https://t.co/JfWCuwxMNG
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The BBC — which, globally trusted source — suggests a different angle:
… Observers wonder whether Chad’s troubles started when it attempted to slap a record $74bn fine on US oil giant Exxon Mobil.
At the time, the current US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson headed the company.
Exxon Mobil was accused of not making royalty payments but eventually avoided the fine, more than seven times Chad’s gross domestic product, as both parties reached a settlement.
There is however little to suggest it was the cause of this ban…
“We’re just saying, is all.” Because Rex Tillerson’s reputation. Also, too:
… Chad might feel hard done-by to suffer this punishment despite its counter-terrorism track record, while its eastern neighbour Sudan – labelled as a state sponsor of terrorism – is being removed from the US’ bad books.
Sudan will see its omission from the travel ban list as a sign that the Trump administration will also remove wider economic sanctions on the country on 12 October.
The sanctions were first put in place in 1997 when Sudan was named a state sponsor of terrorism, while further penalties were imposed for alleged abuses carried out in the troubled Darfur region.
The State Department concluded that Sudan was cooperating better on counter-terrorism, and in improving humanitarian access to conflict areas, like Darfur…
And when this doesn’t happen, because c’mon, Trump administration/GOP, then what?
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