-Sudan has regained full membership and voting rights in the International Monetary Fund following a majority decision taken by members of the fund executive council.
- Sudan starts exporting butane gas.
- A UN report sparked the ire of the United States. The document states that international economic sanctions are inefficient and harmful; they are based on the assumption that economic pressure on civilians will translate into pressure on the government, thereby inducing political changes. In regimes where political decisions are not made through democratic channels, it is simply impossible for civilian pressures to spur change in the government. On the contrary, the government being sanctioned could use the reprisals as a scapegoat for its problems, giving political leaders a foothold to engage in political extremism.
- UPI reported that the republican vice-presidential nominee Cheney‘s connection with Haliburton - the giant  oil services corporation that gave him a multimillion dollar exit package- might prove embarrassing. After all the company had contracts with the Sudan.
- US is lobbying to deny Sudan a UN Security Council temporary seat.