Negotiations to be held on Tuesday, a week after Ethiopian forces killed at least four Sudanese soldiers along the border. BY AL JAZEERA Sudan and Ethiopia will hold negotiations next week to delineate their shared border, a statement from Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said on Sunday. The talks will be held on Tuesday, […]
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BY AGGREY MUTAMBO | DAILY NATION Services at the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) could be crippled following a stalemate on who becomes chief executive officer and chairman of the bloc. Normally a calm organisation focusing on Horn of Africa’s political scene, members seeking to lead IGAD for the first time since its formation in […]
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BY SUDAN TRIBUNE South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir will not attend regional bloc’s (IGAD) extraordinary summit due in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on Monday, his office announced on Thursday. The summit, to be attended by IGAD heads of state and government, is expected to discuss the dire security and humanitarian situation facing South Sudan […]
Continue ReadingBy Sudan Tribune, SOUTH Sudan’s president Salva Kiir on Friday accused the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) of allegedly delaying peace talks to end the country’s 11-month-long conflict, which has killed thousand and displaced millions of people. “Whenever we are about to reach a peace agreement, the IGAD imposes recess and holidays, this is why […]
Continue ReadingBy African Arguments, AUGUST was not IGAD’s finest month. In Bentiu, a ceasefire monitor died of a heart attack after his captors forced him to march for miles; IGAD was unable to muster more than a strongly worded statement. In the same week, a shambolic heads of state summit adopted an ‘inclusive’ protocol that doesn’t […]
Continue ReadingBy Sudan Tribune, THE African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) has reiterated its readiness to impose targeted multilateral sanctions and other punitive measures against any party that fails to honor its commitments and continues to undermine the search for a negotiated solution to South Sudan’s current crisis. This comes after AUPSC members were briefed by […]
Continue ReadingBy Sudan Tribune, An East African regional heads of states and governments summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday authorised the prompt deployment of a Protection and Deterrent Force (PDF) from the region to help restore peace and stability in South Sudan. According to a a communiqué issued during the 25th extraordinary session of the […]
Continue ReadingBy Sudan Tribune, President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday revealed that the Ugandan army has been actively fighting South Sudanese rebels led by the former vice-president Riek Machar. Museveni also disclosed that Ugandan soldiers were killed and others injured when the Ugandan Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) engaged the rebels just 90 kilometres outside Juba, just a […]
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