The announcement follows Iran ramping up uranium enrichment and comes in the waning days of US President Donald Trump’s administration, as incoming President Joe Biden has raised the possibility of reentering the deal.

The United States will help cover Sudan’s more than $1 billion in arrears to the World Bank in exchange. Sudan’s Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari signed an agreement with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday agreeing to normalize ties with Israel as part of the Trump administration’s Abraham Accords initiative.

Ethiopia is accusing Egypt of deliberate hostility amid stalled negotiations on the controversial dam and tension between Addis Ababa and Khartoum. The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ethiopian chargé d’affaires to Cairo Dec. 30 to clarify statements by Dina Mufti, the spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign …