S formally removed Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo maybe announcement bringing to an end a decades old designation that has weighed on the Sudanese economy and curved financial assistance.

The United States listed Sudan in 1993 on the grounds that former President Omar al Bashir's regime was harboring militant groups including al Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah.

During the nineties, the regime became a pariah, hosting militant leaders including Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal, on positioning itself as a fulcrum for Islamist movements.

However, Bashir had cooperated with the United States on counterterrorism after 9 11.

It's all meant Sudan has been cut off from financial assistance and investment on from the global banking system, Sudan's Prime Minister Abdullah Hand doc, said in a statement.

We have been liberated from the global blockade which we were forced into by the behavior of the ousted regime.

The initial news in October that Sudan was coming off the U.