L-R: Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Oguelleh, Kenya’s President William Ruto and South Sudan President Salva Kiir at the Igad Quartet meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya on September 6, 2023. PHOTO | X via IGAD SPOKESPERSON
A four-country team of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) says it wants the various peace bids on Sudan unified to pursue long-lasting stability, signalling own failures in mediating the deadly conflict.
Known as the Quartet, the countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Djibouti, say the conflict in Sudan is threatening to expand beyond the original warring lines, risking the stability of the entire Horn of Africa. And that may be partly due to multiplicity of peace bids, including their own.
