IGAD Peace and Security Division communications colleague Ms Sharon Kuku briefing colleagues on IGAD communications strategy Nuriye A Nejat Sunday Angoma OKELLO

Pleased reconnecting with sister Rabab Baldo - always reminding the #SouthSudan parties to adhere to the 35% affirmative action in their nominations. women groups & reps made significant contributions to the content of the Revitalised peace agreement @igadsecretariat IGAD Peace and Security Division

Finally. South Sudan records the highest number of Vice Presidents in the world, high numbers of generals and thank God, it reduced the numbers of States to 10. Everything runs high in South Sudan but hopefully Lam Akol’s emotion does not run high.

All measures should also stop banks from charging monthly charges on services, withdrawals from ATM, etc. Lock down means a lot and surely the fight against corona needs adjustment in all areas.

Africans should utilize their traditional ways of mental strength, physiological resilience and coping mechanism to fight CORONA. Combined with the WHO regulations, we will prevail against this virus.

I have come to a conclusion that popularism does not work in forging political leadership of an informed and challenged society especially where one would claim liberal or post liberal democracy is. Forget it for now.

Managing and accepting change has always never been easy thing. It’s human nature. COVID-19 challenges us to exactly profer that.

#CEWARN Conflict Analyst Sunday Angoma OKELLO & team just concluded a weeklong exercise in #Bishoftu with multi-sector experts drawn from across #Ethiopia to undertake a national conflict profiling exercise-intended to identify emerging threats & opportunities. More updates coming up!

#CEWARN's GIS platform avails maps that provide spatial analysis of conflicts in the region. The maps contain physical and human factors of conflicts - where applicable. refer 🔽 for links to three categories of maps. cewarn.org/index.php/news…

#CEWARN Director and team are in #Naivasha with a great mix of gov'tal and non gov'tal entities across #kenya undertaking a country #conflict profiling exercise. They are doing an appraisal of critical national dev'ts across CEWARN's five sectors of focus. stay tuned for updates!

#CEWARN team is on a year-end retreat in #Mombasa reflecting on its 2020 operations. Despite unprecedented disruptions due to the #COVID19 pandemic, CEWARN stayed the course in monitoring dev'ts in the #IGAD region & sharing #earlywarning with decision makers. IGAD Secretariat

#CEWARN & Ministry of Peace are convening a workshop in #Bahirdar on revitalization of #Ethiopian nat’l Conflict #EarlyWarning & Response Unit (#CEWERU) that is a lead #conflictprevention agency within the framework of IGAD’s reg’l mechanism for conflict early warning in the country.

Had the privilege to meet with H.E President of the Amhara regional state, Agegnehu Teshager at the wonderful state capital, Bahir Dar, Lake Tana.

#youthunemployment, #pandemics, mismanaged #elections, #climateextremes, Polarized #ethnicity/#tribalism, inter-state conflicts, resource-based conflicts, #SALWs and #violentextremism among conflict triggering issues-to-watch in IGAD region. See report ▶️cewarn.org/index.php/news…

As long as AU, RECs/RMs focus only on condemning and "sanctioning" coups in Africa, without condemning constitutional changes and over-stay in power, its as good as nothing. Prior to coups are chains of several reasons to address: corruption, poverty, unemployment of youth, etc.

#IGAD 2022 Budget Meeting with Member States Committee of Ambassadors underway in #Mombasa #Kenya

IGAD leaders meet on the sidelines of the #AUSummit and agreed to convene a Summit on the Sudan situation in the immediate future in consultation with the Executive Secretary of IGAD!

So Russia attacks Ukraine. US seeks allies under NATO. Whenever the war of ideology, pride and protectionism becomes a reality, can change the world dramatically. We will be trading along a thin line of the looming war between the west and combined Russia and China. WW3?

It was a very wonderful inaugural commemoration for Africa and the way forward! As Africans, we need to put it to practice. Thanks to the Commissoner who promised to catalogue all lessons learnt for replication to other African countries.