Ethiopia : Regional Summit On Tigray Crisis Afoot

The announcement was made by Sudanese Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok after a brief visit to Addis Ababa.

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok who doubles as head of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), says he and his Ethiopian counterpart, Abiy Ahmed, have agreed to hold an urgent meeting of IGAD ( bloc of East African countries) to resolve the crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
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. 
Though there was no fixed date for the meeting nor comment by Ethiopia’s government on Hamdok’s announcement on Sunday of an “emergency” meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD, a Sudanese government official told AFP news agency the meeting between Hamdok and Abiy had been “fruitful, especially on the emergency meeting of IGAD” and on reviving a committee to work on delineating their sh...

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