Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gwamnatin Shugaba William J. Clinton daga baya ta yi aiki don ware Sudan. A tsakiyar shekarun 1990, ta kafa manufofin Layin Layin gaba na matsa lamba kan Khartoum tare da taimakon Uganda, Habasha, da Eritrea. Girman rashin jin daɗi game da manufofin Sudan da bayanan barazanar ta'addanci da aka yi niyya ga Amurkawa a Sudan, yawancin abin da ya zama ƙarya, ya sa Amurka a cikin bazara na 1996 don sake tura dukkan Amurkawa daga ofishin jakadancin a Khartoum zuwa Ofishin Jakadancin Amurka a Nairobi. Ofishin jakadancin a Khartoum ya kasance a buɗe amma ma'aikatan Sudan da Amurkawa na lokaci-lokaci suna ziyarta daga Kenya. A rokon Amurka, Sudan ta tilasta Osama bin Laden ya bar kasar a watan Mayun 1996, amma Washington ba ta bi wannan ci gaban ba ta hanyar kokarin inganta dangantaka da Sudan. Matsayi mafi muni a dangantakar ya faru ne a watan Agusta 1998, 'yan kwanaki bayan harin bam a ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka
a Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, da Nairobi, Kenya, lokacin da wani jirgin ruwan sojan ruwan Amurka ya harba makamai masu linzami a kan masana'antar magunguna a Khartoum a kan dalilan da ba a yarda da su ba cewa yana da alaƙa da samar da makamai masu guba.