Intergovernmental Authority On Development - Current Situation

Current Situation

Cooperation is practically stopped in the current time, because of various reasons:

  • Kenya and Uganda have concentrated on the East African Community project, however Kenya is still very active as current presidency of IGAD.
  • Somalia has had no functioning central government since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991. Beginning in the early 2000s (decade), IGAD assisted in talks that produced Somalia's Transitional Federal Government in 2004. It urged the African Union in the first week of September 2006 to accelerate approval of the proposed peacekeeping mission to Somalia, release funds and help raise more money to support the deployment of troops.
  • Sudan has internal problems between the central government of the North and regions in the South and the West of the country; also the 2012 South Sudan–Sudan border conflict.
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea are at odds over multiple sections of their common border, which creates the danger that clashes in Somalia be used as a proxy-war.
  • some sections of the borders of Ethiopia with Eritrea Sudan and Somalia are also not demarcated or are disputed.
  • IGAD expanded its activities in 2008 with initiatives to improve the investment, trade and banking environments of member states. The organization stressed the deployment of highly innovative programmes and mechanisms.

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