The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the East African regional bloc mediating South Sudan’s peace talks, announced that its upcoming Heads of States Summit will be delayed to 30-31 January 2015.
The meeting was scheduled to take place on 18 January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as part of IGAD’s efforts to broker an end to the South Sudan Civil War.
In a press statement released Tuesday, IGAD said the conference would instead take place on the sidelines of a schduled African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital.
The IGAD heads of state have met numerous times since the beginning of the war in hopes of fostering peace between the SPLA-Juba of Salva Kiir and the SPLA-In Opposition of Riek Machar without success.