August 22, 2020 (KHARTOUM) - U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will visit Sudan next week within a regional tour to discuss the normalization of diplomatic ties between Israel and the U.A.E.

Pompeo speaks to the media in August 2019 (Reuters photo) The visit is seen as an attempt to capitalize on the recent agreement between Israeli and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations.

U.S. diplomats told the AP that Pompeo will fly Sunday for Israel, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Sudan.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Ugandan on 3 February.

The visit will be the first visit of a US secretary of state to Sudan after a visit by Condoleezza Rice in July 2005 to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Sudan was added to the list of state sponsors of terrorism on 12 August 1993.

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23 August 23:51, by Kuol87

Our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, game is over. Let this fat criminal (Italian) go and play game with you and you would regret it big times. This fat criminal (Mike Pompeo) and his secret societies criminals, think, they are equal with us here in South Sudan. Pope Francis, was a low life from Argentina. But he is now ’a pope in Italy’.
- 24 August 00:01, by Kuol87
  
  Mr. Pope Francis even welcomed our low lives, Mr. Riek Machar and Riek Machar, and went and knelt down on them in Rome. The whole show is not being entertained here in South Sudan. Roman Catholic and evils are not any different. Read the damned ’da vinci code’. Catholicism, Anglicism and islamism are being fought over our country and our people----all the times.
  - 24 August 00:10, by Kuol87
    
    The lives have been dreaming that ’from Jerusalem, to Tigris Rivers, Euphrates Rivers and up to our Nilotic plains and valleys, their evil empire would expand to?!!’ I don’t know what do the evils smokes? The whole game behind the scenes is to ’geopolitical chess game South Sudan and the South Sudanese’ and then South Sudanese *carve in or surrender* themselves and our country to evil white Americans,

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