A crisis Summit to be held on Kenya on December 20

14 Décembre 2020

Nairobi, Kenya,  December 14 (Infosplusgabon) - A crisis Summit of the Horn of Africa's Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will convene on 20 December in Djibouti to discuss the maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia, Somalia's foreign ministry said on Sunday.

In Addis Ababa, Sudan PM announces IGAD summit on Tigray crisis. Abdalla Hamdok becomes first foreign leader to visit Ethiopian capital since fighting broke out in Tigray region in early November.

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok says he has agreed with Ethiopian counterpart, Abiy Ahmed, to hold an urgent meeting of a bloc of East African countries to resolve the crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

There was no immediate comment by Ethiopia’s government on Hamdok’s announcement on Sunday of an “emergency” meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Hamdok travelled to Addis Ababa amid a growing refugee crisis that has seen some 50,000 Ethiopians flee conflict in the northern Tigray region into neighbouring Sudan.

He is the first foreign leader to visit the Ethiopian capital since fighting broke out in Tigray on November 4, creating a humanitarian crisis and killing thousands of people.

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