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· Several African Heads of State have arrived in the French capital, Paris for a conference on how the continent can recover from covid-19 shocks
· More than a dozen African leaders are attending the summit called by France including from Egypt, Rwanda, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria
· Khartoum maintained a strict anti-Israel stance during the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019
· The transitional government is trying to end Sudan’s international isolation and revive its crisis-stricken economy
Several African Heads of State have arrived in the French capital, Paris for a conference on how the continent can recover from covid-19 shocks. More than a dozen African leaders are attending the summit alled by France including from Egypt, Rwanda, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. The African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki is also attending the meeting.
The summit will discuss on African economies trying to fill a financial shortfall of around US$300 billion caused by the pandemic. On the sidelines of the meeting, the head of Sudan’s transitional government, Abdel Fattah al-Burhane defended the normalization of relations between Khartoum and Israel. Telling that normalization has nothing to do with the right of the Palestinians to create their own state, he defended the step taken by the government, ostensibly to make clear that it was not under pressure from the US to do so. In January, Khartoum signed normalization agreements with Israel under the aegis of the United States. Later, the US removed Sudan from its blacklist of countries accused of supporting terrorism. Importantly, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco have also normalized in recent months their relations with Israel. .
Khartoum maintained a strict anti-Israel stance during the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019. The transitional government is trying to end Sudan’s international isolation and revive its crisis-stricken economy.
