Sudan’s territory has been used by terrorist groups as a safe haven since the 1990s when the country was host to Al-Qaeda—and to Osama bin Laden himself for five years before he returned Afghanistan—and the organisation remains a material and ideological risk to Sudan to this day.
There is renewed international anxiety that the country may once again be used as a launchpad for a new wave of terrorist activity. The risk of Al Qaeda re-establishing a presence in Sudan, especially through links to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), is considered real and endangers not only the country but also regional and even global security.
In early 1991 Osama Bin Laden relocated from…
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