Reports: Israeli Intelligence Minister Visits Sudan

Hebrew websites reported that Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen made the first visit of its kind to Sudan on Monday.

This Israeli media reported that Cohen made a visit to Khartoum on Monday, which lasted for hours, during which he met officials in the transitional authority in Sudan.

The Israeli minister and his delegation held meetings with the heads of the military and intelligence system, in the first visit of an Israeli minister to the Arab-African country.

Sky News Arabia reported that the Israeli delegation had met with the Minister of Defense and Sudanese officials. The Israeli delegation also discussed intelligence cooperation and combating terrorism with the Sudanese side. The two sides also discussed areas of agricultural cooperation. The Israeli delegation included the ministers of intelligence and water.

After the signing of the Abraham Accords between Steven Mnuchin

Former United States Secretary of the Treasury and Sudanese Minister of Justice Nasreddin Abdul-Bari during his visit to Khartoum on the sixth of this month, the administration of US former President Donald Trump tried, before the end of its mandate, to organize an official signing ceremony with the participation of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister and Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, according to Israeli reports.

The option that was presented at that time was to hold the ceremony in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi this week, but the closure in Israel and security tensions between Sudan and Ethiopia dropped the idea from the agenda.

The agreement stipulated "the necessity to consolidate the meanings of tolerance, dialogue and coexistence between different peoples and religions in the Middle East and the world in a way that serves the promotion of a culture of peace."

Thus, Sudan became the third Arab country to sign the aforementioned agreements, after the UAE and Bahrain.

Last October, Sudan announced the normalization of its relationship with Israel, and on the same day, Washington announced that it had decided to remove Sudan from the list of states sponsoring terrorism, to which Khartoum has been included since 1993, a decision that came into effect last month.