IGAD's quartet committee fails to bring Sudanese warring parties to negotiating table

STORY: IGAD's quartet committee fails to bring Sudanese warring parties to negotiating table DATELINE: July 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: Khartoum CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the meeting STORYLINE: A meeting for a quartet committee of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, on Monday failed to bring together the two parties to the Sudanese conflict to a negotiating table in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The Sudanese army delegation boycotted the meeting in protest against Kenya's chairmanship of the quartet committee, which also includes Ethiopia, Djibouti and South Sudan. "After its arrival in Addis Ababa, the government delegation was surprised that the quartet chairmanship had not been changed," Sudan's foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. The Sudanese government has been calling for a change in the committee's chairmanship since the IGAD summit in Djibouti in June, citing Kenyan President William Ruto's lack of "impa

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