Sudan and the United States signed an agreement to restore the African country's sovereign immunity, the Sudanese Ministry of Justice said on Friday.

The ministry said in a statement the agreement will settle cases brought against Sudan in U.S. courts, including for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, for which Sudan has agreed to pay $335 million to victims.

The deal is part of a U.S. pledge to remove Sudan from its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism under its Islamist ruler Omar al-Bashir, who has been toppled by the protests last year.

To avoid new lawsuits Sudan needed its sovereign immunity restored, which it lost as a designated sponsor of terrorism.

However, the family members of victims of 9/11 in the U.S. still have an active lawsuit against Sudan about the nation's alleged complicity in the attack due to support for al-Qaeda in the 1990s by Bashir's government.

Members filing the case told Al-Monitor they felt like "it was a slap in the face from my own country."

President Donald Trump said this month that the United States will remove Sudan from the list as soon as Khartoum sets aside the $335 million it has agreed to pay to American victims of militant attacks and their families.

The designation makes it difficult for its transitional government to access urgently needed debt relief and foreign financing as it fights an economic crisis.

Sudan has under U.S. pressure also agreed to normalize ties with Israel, making Khartoum the third Arab government after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to establish relations with Israel in the last two months.

Sudan's General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling sovereign council, said Monday that the decision to normalize ties with Israel was an incentive for President Donald Trump's administration to end Sudan's international pariah status.

In response to the controversial deal for the tie with Israel, Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a televised interview on Monday that it is yet to confirm.

"I always prefer to call it reconciliation instead of normalization," Burhan said. "So far, we have not concluded an agreement. We will sign with the other two parties, America and Israel, on the aspects of cooperation."

(With input from agencies)