State official: Sudan army chief Burhan won't meet General Daglo

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Sudan's Army General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. PHOTO | ASHRAF SHAZLY | AFP

Sudan's army chief is not ready to meet the enemy general he's been at war with for eight weeks, a government official said Tuesday after a regional bloc proposed a face-to-face encounter between the two.

At a summit held in Djibouti on Monday, East Africa's Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) announced it would expand the number of countries tasked with resolving the crisis, with Kenya chairing a quartet including Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan.