IGAD

IGAD held its 33rd Council of Ministers meeting in Djibouti 7 and 8 December. Foreign Ministers of Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia as well as the deputy minister of Uganda participated as well as a Sudanese delegation. The revitalisation of the organisation as well as subregional issues were discussed. See www.igad.org Read more >

The ambassadors from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark yesterday 12.10.09 signed an agreement with IGAD Executiv Secretary Eng. Mahmoud Maalim in Addis Ababa. The agreement is a joint financing arrangement for "A new Strategic Partnership to deliver IGADs mandate of Regional Stability, Integration and Prosperity. Read more >

The 14th Extra-ordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly deliberated on the security and political situation in Somalia. Read the Communique here. Read more >

Norway will support the IGAD (InterGovernmental Authority on Development) Capacity Building Program Against Terrorism (ICPAT) with NOK 2 million. Norwegian Ambassador Jens-Petter Kjemprud signed an agreement in the ICPAT secretariat office, Addis Ababa, Thursday. Read more >

IGAD’s 33 rd extra-ordinary session have called for the UN to impose a blockade on air strips and sea ports to prevent Islamists getting weapons and fighters, writes BBC this morning.   Read more >

The 33rd Extra-ordinary Meeting (Extra-ordinary No. 1) of the IGAD Council of Ministers was convened at Addis Ababa , Ethiopia on 20th May 2009 to discuss the developments in Somalia. Read more >

Ny driv i organisasjonen og sekretariatet under eksekutivdirektør Maalim, som planlegger besøk Norgesbesøk til våren.   Utestående bidrag fra medlemsland (Uganda og Sudan) er nå innbetalt, noe som vitner om medlemslandenes større tro på organisasjonen.   Forslag om giverharmonisering, gjennom Joint Financing Agreement, godt mottatt av givere, IGADs sekretariat og medlemsland Read more >

Revitaliseringsprosessen i IGAD synes reell. Den nye eksekutivdirektøren en drivkraft. En integrasjonsplan det første viktige steg. Den videre prosess presenteres for et ministermøte i januar. Etiopia utøver et sterkt lederskap i organisasjonen.  IGAD Partners Forum (IPF) ønskes revitalisert på embeds-og politisk nivå. IGAD toppmøtet i Nairobi om Somalia vellykket mht. å samle det internas... Read more >

The secreteriat of IGAD will address the minimum integration plan developed by UN-ECA experts and the strategies that have been drafted for the development of the infrastructure sector in the region. Read more >

Last week a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo, accompanied by Ambassador Kjemprud, visited the IGAD Secretariat in Djibouti, holding talks with Executive Secretary Eng. Mahboub Maalim (see picture) and director for peace and security Daniel Yifru. The talks  focussed on the developments in Somalia in particular and how the Djibouti agreement could be supported, A... Read more >

The International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia met for the first time under the chairmanship of the UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, on 16 September in Djibouti to discuss the situation in Somalia.  It focused on ways to help implement the Djibouti Agreement signed between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia... Read more >

The Executive Secretary of IGAD, Eng. Mahboub Maalim met with delegates of IGAD Partners Forum (IPF)  in Addis Ababa last week . The meeting, which took place at the residence of the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa and chaired by the Italian Ambassador, H.E. Mr. Raffaele de Lutio, brought together the friends of IGAD and was aimed to pave the way to practically implement the revitaliza... Read more >