SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Head of Sudan's sovereign council invited to visit Washington

2/2/2020: Reuters - Head of Sudan's sovereign council invited to visit Washington –

Reuters reports that the US has invited Sudanese General Abdelfattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s sovereign council, to visit Washington

The purpose of the visit will be “to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of developing them”, the council said in a statement, without giving a date for the trip but saying Burhan “promised to fulfil it soon”.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thanked Burhan by phone “for his leadership in normalising ties with Israel,” his spokesperson said.