Sudan and Israel agreed to press ahead with a stalled peace treaty during the first official visit by an Israeli foreign minister to Khartoum on Thursday.
Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz, Dan Williams, and Emily Rose; Writing by Aidan Lewis and Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Mark Heinrich and Rosalba O’Brien
“It has been agreed to move forward towards the normalization of relations between the two countries,” the Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement.
In January 2021, Sudan formally agreed to establish ties with Israel in a quid pro quo for the United States, removing it from its list of “state sponsors of terrorism”, but efforts to normalise ties had stalled.