Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail meets Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy in Cairo
During his visit to Cairo on 7–10 October 2026 for the 7th annual conference of the Arab Association of Political Science, Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, Sudan's former Foreign Minister, met H.E. Nabil Fahmy, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States.
October 2026
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, Sudan's former Foreign Minister, met H.E. Nabil Fahmy, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, during his visit to Cairo on 7–10 October 2026, where he took part in the 7th annual academic conference of the Arab Association of Political Science.
Mr. Fahmy took office as Secretary-General on 1 July 2026 for a five-year term, succeeding Ahmed Aboul Gheit. He was previously Egypt's Foreign Minister, from June 2013 to July 2014, and Egypt's ambassador in Washington from 1999 to 2008 — years that overlapped with Dr. Mustafa's tenure as Sudan's Foreign Minister from 1998 to 2005.
The meeting brought together two diplomats who worked on joint Arab affairs in the same years, at a time when Sudan sits high on the Arab League's agenda.
Weeks later, the Secretary-General travelled to Khartoum. On 26 October 2026 he met Sudan's Prime Minister, Dr. Kamil Idris, to discuss support for peace efforts in Sudan and the national dialogue track, and he met the head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reaffirming the League's commitment to Sudan's sovereignty and territorial unity.
