Sudan welcomes US, Russian navy ships amid strategic competition

Jared Szuba

Mar 2, 2021

This combination of pictures created and taken on March 1, 2021, shows the Russian navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich (L) and the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (R), both anchoring in Port Sudan. — AFP via Getty Images

A US Navy destroyer on Monday docked in Port Sudan, on the African country’s Red Sea coast, as Washington looks to expand its ties with the post-revolutionary government in Khartoum.

The USS Winston Churchill arrived in port just a day after a Russian frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich, docked nearby ahead of implementation of a recent deal that would allow Moscow to establish a naval base there, AFP reported.