How Could a Biden Presidency Help Democratic Transition in Sudan? December 16, 2020 When former Vice President Joe Biden won the election following four tumultuous years under President Donald Trump, the Sudanese government and people had one single question in mind: what would become of the American-Sudanese deal to remove Sudan from the US State Sponsor of Terrorism list ( SSTL) after 27 years of suffering from being on it? Subsequently, how will the future of the deal define the relationship between the United States and Sudan once the Biden Administration takes office in January 2021? The US-Sudan Agreement There are three main elements to the US-Sudan agreement that was reached in October 2020. First, the United States will delist Sudan from the SSTL when Khartoum deposits in escrow $335 million to be paid as compensation to American victims of terrorist attacks for its responsibility (which Khartoum denies) in Al-Qaeda bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the