Sudan’s al-Bashir to skip AU summit in Addis Ababa

[Elisabeth Janaina]

Sudan’s al-Bashir to skip AU summit in Addis Ababa

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July 1, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s Vice-President Hassabo Mohamed
Abdel-Rahman on Sunday would lead his country’s delegation to the
African summit in Addis Ababa, said the official news agency SUNA.

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Vice-president Hasabo Mohamed Abdel-Rahman

Last week, SUNA quoted Sudan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gharib
Allah Khidir as saying President Omer al-Bashir will participate in
the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

However, the agency on Sunday said Abdel-Rahman will lead Sudan’s
delegation to the summit without giving further details on why
al-Bashir wouldn’t attend the meeting.

The 29th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union has
kicked off last Tuesday and will continue until July 4th, 2017 under
the theme “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in
Youth”.

The Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union
will take place from the 3rd to 4th July 2017.

Member states will mainly deliberate on the continent’s peace and
security, with the renewed fighting in South Sudan, situation in
Somalia and crises in Libya among the issues top on agenda for African
leaders to be deliberated upon during the summit.

Also top of the agenda for discussions at the summit are situations in
Central African Republic, Mali, Democratic Republic Congo (DRC),
Burundi and the Darfur region.

The previous summit held in Addis Ababa last January witnessed the
return of Morocco to AU after over three decades of absence from the
pan-African body.

(ST)