Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudan's Sovereignty Council chairman Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan will probably hold a meeting in the coming days in Uganda, according to i24NEWS.
"The Sudanese-Israeli Friendship Association is set to be inaugurated next Saturday, September 26, in Khartoum," i24News reported.
The event, where media will be invited for coverage, will set off a normalization process between the two countries.
Netanyahu's office declined to comment on the matter.
It is worth mentioning that, last Wednesday, Al Burhan held talks with the US delegation of senior officials in Abu Dhabi regarding the removal of Sudan from the terrorism list.
Sudan’s transitional government, in charge since the toppling of Omar al-Bashir last year, has been pushing to get off the U.S. list, which hinders its ability to access foreign loans to tackle an economic crisis.
In August, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raised the issue of Sudan establishing ties with Israel during a visit. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told him he had no mandate to do so.
The same month, the UAE, a key partner of the U.S., and Bahrain normalized ties with Israel in deals brokered by Washington, the first Arab states in a quarter of a century to break a longstanding taboo.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he expects other Arab countries to follow suit.
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