US nuclear confusion causes fear in Sudan

 
Washington tells Khartoum nuclear tests conducted four decades ago were in Sedan not Sudan.

 
KHARTOUM - The United States Thursday informed the Sudanese government that nuclear tests carried out about four decades ago were in Sedan, in the US state of Nevada, and not in Sudan, the Sudanese foreign minister said.

The clarification came in response to Mustafa Osman Ismail's request Tuesday that Washington look into reports of nuclear waste allegedly buried in the country in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ismail then said the information had been posted on a news website by an unnamed US Defense Department official.

"We have no reason that makes us doubt the explanation that we have received from the US administration," he told reporters Thursday, adding that the investigation the Sudanese authorities had begun would continue "so as to be fully reassured."

Before obtaining clarification on the matter, several senior Sudanese government officials had fiercely criticised the United States, branding it an "evil" and "criminal" state which they blamed for the spread of cancer in their country.

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