Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tattalin Arzikin Turai (EEC) hadin gwiwa tare da Sudan - memba na Kungiyar Kasashen Afirka, Caribbean da Pacific (ACP) - an gudanar da shi a karkashin kulawar Yarjejeniyar Lomé. Bayan juyin mulkin Sudan na 1989
kuma sakamakon keta hakkin dan adam, kungiyar tarayyar turai ta dakatar da taimakon raya kasa a watan Maris na 1990. Ba tare da tsarin doka ba don ci gaba, sai dai don taimakon agaji na agaji da aka bayar ta hanyar ECHO, an dakatar da dangantaka. A shekara ta 1999, tattaunawar ta ci gaba.