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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Thursday 6 February 2020


















                                                                      Sudan official: Talks with Israel


                                                                      about international status




                                                                      By SAMY MAGDY
                                                                      Associated Press
                                                                      CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's mili-
                                                                      tary  said  Wednesday  the
                                                                      motive  for  agreeing  to  an
                                                                      initiative  to  normalize  rela-
                                                                      tions  with  Israel  after  de-
                                                                      cades  of  enmity  was  to
                                                                      help end the country's sta-
            In this Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, Hayo, chief of the Pataxo Ha-ha-  tus  as  an  international  pa-
            hae indigenous community, walks toward the Paraopeba River   riah state.
            days after the collapse of a mining company dam, near his vil-
            lage in Brumadinho, Brazil.                               The spokesman for Sudan's
                                                     Associated Press  armed  forces,  Brig.  Amer
                                                                      Mohammed         al-Hassan,
            Former missionary to                                      said in a news conference
                                                                      that  a  meeting  between

            lead Brazil's isolated                                    the  head  of  Sudan's  sov-  Israeli  Prime  Minister  Benjamin  Netanyahu  listens  to  Russian
                                                                      ereign  council  and  Israel's
                                                                      prime  minister  in  Uganda
            indigenous unit                                           on Monday was part of ef-    President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in the Kremlin in
                                                                                                   Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.
                                                                      forts  to  end  Sudan's  long-
                                                                                                                                            Associated Press
                                                                      time  status  as  a  state  sup-
            SAO  PAULO  (AP)  —  Bra-    in 1997-2007 as a member     porter of terror.            of the U.S.                  criticism  from  civil  society
            zil's  far-right  administration  of the New Tribes nonprofit   The  goal  of  the  talks  be-  Netanyahu declared Mon-  leaders  for  the  sudden
            named a former evangeli-     group. Currently called Eth-  tween  Benjamin  Netanya-   day  on  Twitter  that  Israel  warming  in  relations  with
            cal  missionary  Wednesday  nos360,  the  Florida-based   hu and Gen. Abdel-Fattah  and  Sudan  were  working  Israel.  Sudan,  a  Muslim-
            to head a department re-     group    sends   missionar-  Burhan,  he  said,  was  to  toward  normalizing  rela-   majority  African  country,
            sponsible  for  protecting  ies  from  local  churches    help secure Sudan's remov-   tions. For Israel, it would be  has long said it supports the
            uncontacted and recently  around the world, many to       al from the United States' list  a  major  diplomatic  break-  Palestinian  people  in  their
            contacted       indigenous  indigenous territory.         of states that sponsor terror.  through.                  calls  for  an  independent
            groups,  raising  concerns  Dias'  nomination  comes  a   The designation dates back  Burhan  was  quoted  by  al-  state.
            among  human  rights  ac-    week  after  Funai's  chair-  to  the  1990s,  when  Sudan  Hassan  as  saying  during  a  Burhan,   Sudan's   interim
            tivists  about  the  threat  to  man   changed   internal   briefly  hosted  Osama  bin  meeting  with  newspaper  leader,  said  in  a  separate
            tribes' health and culture.   rules  so  people  who  don't   Laden  and  other  wanted  editors  Wednesday  that  statement  Tuesday  that
            The  Justice  Ministry  said  pass  civil  service  exams   militants. The U.S. and Israel  Sudan  is  under  economic  Sudan  backs  the  Palestin-
            Ricardo  Lopes  Dias  is  the  can be eligible for the posi-  are staunch allies.      pressure  and  the  country  ian  people's  aspirations
            new  coordinator-general  tion to which Dias has been     Sudan was also believed to  needs "bold decisions that  to  have  an  independent
            for  the  government  unit,  appointed.    Brazil  officially   have  served  as  a  pipeline  shift Sudan's domestic and  state.
            which is part of the indige-  counts  28  groups  of  iso-  for Iran to supply weapons  foreign policy."            Sudan is a member of the
            nous affairs agency known  lated  indigenous  peoples     to  Palestinian  militants  in  Sudan  is  led  by  a  military-  Arab  League  and  joined
            as Funai.                    in  the  Amazon.  President   the  Gaza  Strip.  Israel  was  civilian  transitional  council  other members at a meet-
            In  recent  interviews  with  Jair Bolsonaro has said that   thought to have been be-  established  following  au-  ing  in  Cairo  on  Saturday
            Brazilian  media,  Dias  said  indigenous  groups  should   hind airstrikes in Sudan that  tocratic  president  Omar  in  rejecting  Trump's  plan
            he would not seek to evan-   be  integrated  into  Brazil-  destroyed a convoy in 2009  al-Bashir's ouster in a popu-  for  settling  the  Israeli-Pal-
            gelize  indigenous  groups.  ian  society  and  that  their   and  a  weapons  factory  in  lar  uprising  that  ended  his  estinian  conflict.  The  plan,
            He  told  the  newspaper  O  protected  lands  can  pose   2012.                       30-year  rule  last  April.  Its  laid  out  by  Trump  late  last
            Globo  before  his  nomina-  a  threat  to  development   Monday's  meeting  came  interim civilian leaders had  week, heavily favors Israel.
            tion was made official that  and national sovereignty.    just a day after U.S. Secre-  said  the  meeting  with  Ne-  Burhan  also  was  quoted
            his actions would be purely  A  former  Funai  president,   tary of State Mike Pompeo  tanyahu  caught  them  by  as  saying  that  there  had
            technical,  defended  his  Marcio Santilli, told The As-  invited  Burhan  to  visit  the  surprise.                been  "preparatory  talks"
            knowledge  of  indigenous  sociated Press that the ap-    United  States  in  a  phone  Al-Hassan  said  that  in  the  about the meeting as early
            groups and insisted there is  pointment  of  Dias  was  a   call.  The  date  of  the  visit  Monday  meeting,  the  two  as  three  months  ago,  and
            prejudice  against  him  be-  matter of global concern.   has not yet been set.        leaders did not discuss U.S.  that the country's top civil-
            cause of his faith.          "The risks of contact are of   A  senior  Sudanese  military  President  Donald's  Trump  ian  leader,  Prime  Minister
            Activists  say  that  hasn't  al-  contamination by disease,   official  said  Monday  the  controversial plan for Israel  Abdalla  Hamdok,  was  in-
            layed their concerns, given  as  often  happened  in  the   Sudan-Israel  meeting  was  and  the  Palestinians,  un-  formed two days prior that
            Dias  work  in  the  Amazon  past," Santilli said.q       orchestrated by the United  veiled last week.             the meeting would be tak-
                                                                      Arab Emirates, a close ally  The government has faced  ing place.q
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