Kammala wannan jumla: 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 ƙasƙanci a cikin dangantakar ya faru ne a watan Agusta na 1998, 'yan kwanaki bayan da
harin bam na ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka a Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, da Nairobi, Kenya, lokacin da wani jirgin ruwan Amurka ya kaddamar da makamai masu linzami a kan masana'antar magunguna a Khartoum a kan dalilai masu ban mamaki cewa an haɗa shi da samar da makamai masu guba.