SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan gives Israel initial okay for overflights - official

5/2/2020: Reuters - Sudan gives Israel initial okay for overflights - official

Reuters reports that Sudan has agreed to allow flights heading to Israel to cross its airspace, in what Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) spokesman Brigadier Amer al-Hassan labelled an “exchange of interests” between the countries.

Al-Hassan confirmed that Sudan has not announced full normalisation with Israel, but described al-Burhan’s meeting with Netanyahu in Uganda as being in “the highest interests of national security and of Sudan.”

Netanyahu had previously said opening Sudanese airspace to Israeli civilian planes would cut hours off flights to South America, Israel’s fourth-most important travel destination.