The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has been meeting in Khartoum since Saturday, 18 November, with experts on economics, agriculture and politics taking part, the official Sudanese news agency SUNA said. IGAD Executive Director Dr Atallah al-Bashir said the meeting would “serve as a preparatory meeting for IGAD’s ministerial meeting and the IGAD summit,” the report stated. Delegates would also discuss food security projects and ways to implement them, the agency added. The meeting is being attended by representatives from IGAD member states: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda.
UN Security Council Resolution 1054 of 26 April 1996 called on all international and regional organisations not to convene any conferences in Sudan, in protest at the country’s non-compliance with efforts to find those responsible for an attempt on the life of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a visit to Ethiopia in 1995, and its alleged sponsorship of international terrorism.
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