IGAD delegation meets with Sudanese officials

A delegation from the general trusteeship for the organizations of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which mediates in the Sudanese crisis and raised the IGAD peace initiative which is supervised an supported by the USA, convened with Sudanese officials yesterday.

The delegation urged the Sudanese government to attend a new round of negotiations with the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army in Nairobi in the middle of the coming month.

Daniel Amboya, the Kenyan special envoy, and the ambassadors of Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti in Nairobi head the IGAD delegation.

There is a competition between the IGAD initiative, which concerns the Sudanese government and the SPLA, and the Egyptian - Libyan initiative supported by the Arab states and the northern opposition in Sudan, topped by the Democratic Unionist and Ummah Parties.