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Israel says Sudan peace deal to be signed later this year

An Israeli flag during a rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on September 19, 2020, and a Sudanese flag during a gathering east of the capital Khartoum on June 3, 2020. © Jack Guez and Ashraf Shazly, AFP

Israel expects to fully normalise ties with Sudan sometime later this year, Israel's foreign minister said Thursday, after returning from a lightning diplomatic mission to the Sudanese capital.

Eli Cohen spoke to reporters after a one-day trip to Khartoum that included high-level meetings with military leaders, including Sudan's ruling general, Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who led a coup that overturned the country's transitional government in 2021.

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