A number of arrests have been made since the attack on Monday. Some of them foreigners.

Abdalla Hamdok was unscathed when explosives and gunfire were launched on his convoy taking him to work in Khartoum.

It underlines the fragility of Sudan’s transition to civilian rule after last year’s fall of Omar Al Bashir.

The arrival in Sudan of FBI agents supporting  investigations into the  attack shows how relations between Washington Khartoum have warmed since Al Bashir’s departure.

Sudan under him was regarded as an international pariah for which it drew economic and military sanctions. 

Sudan was on Washington’s list of terrorist supporting states for which it attracted sanctions.

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