Sudan calls on US to probe nuclear waste report

KHARTOUM, March 8 (AFP) — Sudan’s Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail demanded Tuesday that the United States look into reports of nuclear waste it had allegedly buried in the country more than three decades ago.

“For the safety of our people, we have summoned the American charge d’affaires and asked him to supply us with information … that the US buried nuclear waste in the Sudan in the years 1962 and 1970,” Ismail told reporters.

Ismail said the information had been posted on a news website by an unnamed US Defense Department official. “An explanation will be demanded from the US administration if the report turns out to be true,” he added.