Washington, Nov 15: The United States has renewed its existing travel warning for Sudan, alerting US citizens for the first time to terrorist plots on western interests there less than a week after temporarily closing its embassy in Khartoum due to an unspecified threat. "The US government has received indications of terrorist threats aimed at American and western interests in Sudan," the State Department said in the warning yesterday, which advised US citizens against all travel to the country.
"Terrorist actions may include suicide operations, bombings, or kidnappings," it said without elaborating.
The alert replaced an existing March 26 travel warning which noted the ongoing civil war in Sudan and anti-western and American sentiment, but made no mention of "terrorist threats".
The warning was issued just four days after the US Embassy in the Sudanese capital announced it was suspending normal operation for a week citing "a credible and specific threat to US interests in Khartoum."
Neither it nor the State Department in Washington would expand on Monday's brief embassy statement, which also advised US citizens in Sudan to be cautious and avoid gatherings of foreigners. Bureau Report