(22 February 2023)

Sudan signed the Abraham Accords in January 2021, a step viewed as a condition for US munificence in removing Sudan’s name from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, and paving a loans-ridden route for Sudan’s reintegration into the global financial system after decades of exclusion.

Sudan had reached out to Israel a year earlier, when General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan – who came to power after countrywide popular demonstrations preceded a 2019 palace coup against former leader Omar al-Bashir – held a meeting in Uganda’s Entebbe with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February 2020.