{UAH} M7 ARRIVES IN NAIROBI FOR IGAD SUMMIT ON SOTH SUDAN CRISIS

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Friday, 27^th December 2013

IGAD member Heads sof State in Kenya over South Sudan crisis

 

President Yoweri Museveni arrived in Kenya this afternoon ahead of the 3^rd extraordinary session of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Assembly of Heads of State and Government (IGAD) over the political crisis in Africa's youngest nation, South Sudan and how peace can be restored in that country.

The two day meeting is to be attended by leaders from Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti, Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea and host Kenya.

 

The Nairobi IGAD Summit comes in the wake of a fortnight of fighting in South Sudan that broke out following an alleged attempted coup by former South Sudanese Vice President, Riek Machar against the Government President Salva Kiir.

 

To date countries with citizens in South Sudan including Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda who have been doing business in Juba and other regions of Southern Sudan, are being evacuated.

 

President Museveni was received on arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Uganda's High Commissioner to Kenya, Ms. Angelina Wapakhabulo and the Cabinet Secretary for Oil and Petroleum of Kenya, Hon. Davis Chirchir.

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