(Photo By: Avo Ohayun/GPO)

(Photo By: Avo Ohayun/GPO)

By: Raphael Ahren - November 3, 2020

Malawi plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem by next summer, the southeast African country’s foreign minister, Eisenhower Mkaka, announced Tuesday during a visit to Israel.

It would be the third embassy in Jerusalem, after the United States and Guatemala, and the first of an African country.

Mkaka “reiterated the intent of the Republic of Malawi to open a fully-fledged Embassy in Jerusalem [by summer of 2021],” according to a joint statement issued by the two countries.

Read More: Times of Israel

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