Togo and Cameroon are expected to be the next African states to restore diplomatic relations with Israel, sources here said Monday. Speculation to that effect was raised by news that the Foreign Ministry’s Director General, David Kimche, is visiting both countries this week.
Ivory Coast re-established diplomatic ties with Israel last week and officials here said at the time that two other Black African nations would shortly follow suit. Togo and Cameroon, like Ivory Coast, were formerly governed by France, though a part of Cameroon was once administered by Britain under a League of Nations Mandate.
They would bring to five the number of African states which broke with Israel after the 1973 Yom Kippur War to re-establish diplomatic relations. Zaire and Liberia resumed their ties with Israel last year.
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