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Eritrea boycotts Djibouti-hosted IGAD summit

    NAIROBI

    One of the IGAD members, Eritrea, will not be attending the organisation’s summit meeting this week because it claims the host country Djibouti “has been making all sorts of accusations against it”, its Nairobi embassy spokesman Kidane Woldeyesus told IRIN. Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh last week warned of deteriorating relations between his country and Eritrea, and said there was “almost a state of war” between the two. “It would not be appropriate for us to take part in this context,” Kidane said on Tuesday. Eritrea is considered a key regional player in relation to Somalia, not least because it has been consistently accused of arming anti-Ethiopian factions there - a charge it has repeatedly denied.

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