 And outside Africa, Israel's foreign minister, Yair El-Apid, landed in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday in the first official visit by an Israeli minister to the Gulf state since the two countries established diplomatic relations last year. During the two-day visit, Yair El-Apid will inaugurate Israel's embassy in Abu Dhabi and its consulate in Dubai as well as sign an agreement on economic cooperation. The UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco began normalizing relations with Israel last year under the Abraham Accords, brokered by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, and which marked a strategic realignment of Middle East countries against Iran. The UAE formally opened its embassy in Tel Aviv, temporarily located in Tel Aviv's stock exchange to little fanfare this month.