Kenya: IGAD Sets up Election Monitoring Team
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has said former president of Ethiopia, Mulatu Teshome, will lead its election observer mission to Kenya to observe the country’s 2022 general election. It is understood that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya invited IGAD to send an observer mission for the elections. According to the […]
Food Crisis: IGAD Leaders Meet, Make Call
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has urged humanitarian partners and international donors to scale up efforts aimed at preventing the drought-induced humanitarian crisis in the region. IGAD said it was alarmed at the serious drought situation in the region, which is widely regarded as the worst in 40 years. The call is contained in […]
Djibouti: IGAD, Partners Move against GBV
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has encouraged actors in gender-based violence (GBV) response and prevention in Djibouti to have as much knowledge as possible to ensure adequate support. The call was made at a training of frontline workers in the area of GBV prevention in the village of Merkazi in Obock. The training was […]
IGAD Records Mixed Migration Flow, Makes Call
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has called for support for member states in producing reliable and timely data on labour and irregular migration. IGAD – a composition of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda – made the call in a new report titled IGAD Migration Statistics Report 2021. It noted that Sudan, […]
IGAD Reiterates Peace, Security Objective
The Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Workneh Gebeheyu, has promised to work towards ensuring peace and security in the IGAD region. Gebeheyu, who made the statement in his second ‘State of the Region’ address, said that the weakening of the regional response to Al Shabaab and other terror groups remains of […]
Djibouti: IGAD, EU Deliver Health Care Equipment
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has handed over mobile laboratory, common sanitary products, an ambulance and a vehicle to the government of Djibouti for the fight against Covid-19. The health care equipment and other donations were made as part of the European Union (EU) and IGAD Covid-19 Response project in the Horn of Africa. […]
IGAD, FAO Raise Fresh Climate Change Concerns
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) say the Horn of Africa is under threat of worsening drought conditions, food insecurity and other impacts of climate change. In a joint statement by the IGAD Executive Secretary, Workneh Gebeyehu, and the FAO Subregional Coordinator for Eastern Africa, Chimimba David Phiri, […]
Uganda: IGAD, Humanity First React to Bombings
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has condemned the two explosions that rocked Kampala, Uganda’s capital, on 16 November, 2021. Suicide bombers targeted the Ugandan capital, killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 others, according to police. Three attackers on motorbikes detonated explosives – one, very close to the Ugandan parliament, and […]
Sudan: IGAD Reacts to Military Takeover
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has called for the immediate release of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and all arrested political leaders in Sudan. Hamdok, members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council’s civilian component and several ministers were arrested by joint military forces in an apparent coup. The chairman of Sudan’s ruling body, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, […]
Liberia: GPFA Trains Women as ‘Peace Brigades’
The Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPDA), in partnership with the Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund and Spotlight Initiative, is training women as ‘Peace Brigades’ in five Liberian communities. Development Diaries understands that the training, with the theme ‘Sustain the Peace’, is being held in Montserrado, Greater Monrovia, Todee, Careysburg, St. Paul River and Commonwealth. The […]