⁍ Sudan and Israel will discuss agreements to cooperate on trade and migration issues.

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⁍ It signals steps to implement a normalisation pact after decades of hostilities.

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⁍ Israel for its part said it will send wheat worth $5 million to ‘our new friends of Sudan

– Israel and Sudan have established diplomatic relations for the first time since World War II—and Israel is sending Sudan $5 million worth of wheat. The move is part of a US-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries, which were at war for more than two decades, Reuters reports. The “new friends” of Sudan are the third and fifth Arab governments to establish ties with Israel in the last two months, and only the fifth since 1948. The “normalization” deal has not yet been approved by a transitional parliament that has yet to be formed after the ouster of the country’s long-serving autocrat last year, the AP reports. Some Sudanese officials have said it should be approved by a transitional parliament that has yet to be formed over a year after mass unrest ousted Islamist autocrat Omar al-Bashir. Sudan’s foreign ministry said Sudanese and Israeli delegations would meet in coming weeks to negotiate deals for agriculture, aviation, trade, and migration. It gave no details or timeframe for the talks. The normalization deal is sensitive in Sudan, formerly a hardline critic of Israel, dividing opinion among military and civilian leaders heading a post-Bashir transition. The Sudanese premier wants approval from a yet-to-be formed parliament to proceed with a broader, formal normalization, and that may not be a quick process given civilian-military differences over the opening to Israel. Sudan has received an initial cargo of 67,000 tons of wheat from the United Arab Emirates.