KHARTOUM: Sudan is reviewing a deal its ousted strongman negotiated with Russia allowing construction of a naval base after some clauses were found to be “somewhat harmful,” a top military official has said. For decades, Sudan was dependent militarily on Russia because of crippling sanctions imposed by Washington against the government of now ousted president Omar Al-Bashir. But since his 2019 overthrow, Sudan has moved closer to the United States which removed Khartoum from its crippling blacklist last year. “This deal was signed under the former National Salvation Government,” armed forces chief of staff General Mohamed Othman Al-Hussein said in an interview broadcast late Tuesday.