S. SUDAN’S KIIR TO ATTEND IGAD’S EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT IN ETHIOPIA

(Sudan Tribun)- South Sudan president Salva Kiir will attend the upcoming extraordinary summit organised by the intergovernmental authority on development (IGAD), the regional bloc which mediated the 2015 peace agreement to end the devastating conflict in the young nation. A presidential aide said the South Sudan leader would himself attend the summit if no important matters required his attention at home. “This is an important meeting of heads of state of the IGAD member countries. It is being specifically convened to discuss the current situation in the country, which is an encouraging and important initiative”, Tor Deng Mawien, the presidential advisor on decentralisation and intergovernmental linkage said Wednesday. He said IGAD has a role in persuading armed and non-political forces to join the national dialogue. He stressing that a home-grown peace deal from the dialogue will be sustainable, inclusive and grounded on the full respect of the ratified international human...