Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is a regional intergovernmental organization based in Djibouti whose member states include Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Uganda, among others. It works on regional cooperation in areas including agriculture and environment, economic cooperation and regional integration, health and social development, and peace and security.www.igad.int
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Sep 14, 2026
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
And I, I'm maybe going a little bit in circle, but I'm gonna come back to what you're saying.
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
When we were fighting Al-Shabaab in Somalia, uh, I remember one time there was a meeting of heads of state of IGAD.
Sanny NtayombyaHOST
Mm.
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
That is the regional bloc in the Horn.
Daud JiranGUEST
the same people all across.
Diba Dida WakoGUEST
So under this program that I'm running now, the Regional Livestock Program, we are working with IGAD.
Diba Dida WakoGUEST
We are working on harmonizing these policies.
Diba Dida WakoGUEST
But policy harmonization is just one step.
Dirk KotzeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, it is indeed so that South Africa has a long history with South Sudan, even when it was still part of the bigger Sudan.
Dirk KotzeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This goes back to the period specifically before 2005 with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, where South Africa became directly involved in it, although it was not part of the mediation process that was done by IGAD.
Dirk KotzeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the east african community organization but thereafter as he indicated the south african government as well as my university the university of south africa were involved in a period of about six years of capacity building
Christine TsotetsiCORRESPONDENT
so the
Joseph OceanoGUEST
So as a continent, you know, that is the position the African Union should take.
Joseph OceanoGUEST
That's the position this African community and IGAD should take.
Joseph OceanoGUEST
And that's also the position that agencies, including, you know, your own SADC, should be able to take because they've got net interest because some of the SADC members are neighbors of the countries in conflict.
Joseph OceanoGUEST
So I think that should be the most private thing.
Sherwin Bryce-PeaseCORRESPONDENT
The council also heard that the United Nations continued to support the efforts of the Quad, comprising the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, towards a humanitarian truce.
Sherwin Bryce-PeaseCORRESPONDENT
This, while the principles of the African Union, IGAD, the League of Arab States, and the European Union were due to travel to Sudan in the coming weeks to explore synergies between domestic and international efforts towards advancing peace.
Sherwin Bryce-PeaseCORRESPONDENT
But after three years of war, the conflict has become more complex.
Sherwin Bryce-PeaseCORRESPONDENT
With growing political polarization, territorial fragmentation, and the continued external flow of arms into this war, finding common ground is now likely to prove even more difficult to achieve.
Abdul MohammedGUEST
The core was African Union staff and then expert recruited by the African Union.
Abdul MohammedGUEST
Uh, there were also staff seconded to the panel from the United Nation, so staff seconded by the IGAD, and then individual countries who were supporting, uh, staff or seconded by the, the, the UK on security issue.
Abdul MohammedGUEST
And then we worked with the staff that were part of the special envoy, uh, for United States.
Abdul MohammedGUEST
Uh, they, uh, were also included under Ambassador Lyman.
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Abdul MohammedGUEST
And as a result of that, whatever misunderstanding arose between the US and the media- and the mediation, he was able to soften it and find a resolution.
Abdul MohammedGUEST
And there were also other special envoys that were assisting us, uh, from Britain, uh, from, um, from other pla- from other countries whose quality of, uh, of, uh, diplomatic skill, you don't find that today.
Abdul MohammedGUEST
And I should also highlight that from the IGAD side at that time, uh, the chair of IGAD was the former Prime Minister, uh, Meles Zenawi, who played a very important and integral role in support of the work of the panel.
Alan BoswellHOST
Mm.
Saeed AbdallahGUEST
This is, this is also important.
Saeed AbdallahGUEST
Then the third one, the difficult mediation track, including the, uh, the AU, IGAD, which is the regional, uh, body, and, and the UN, uh, and the Jeddah process that we saw at the beginning of the war need to, need to be better coordinated.
Saeed AbdallahGUEST
And Sudan does not need more competing peace initiatives.
Saeed AbdallahGUEST
It needs one coherent diplomatic strategy.