Somali president to attend IGAD Summit in Addis Ababa on South Sudan

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday to attend an IGAD Summit on South Sudan.

The President will join other leaders at the meeting in the latest regional effort to push for a lasting solution to the challenges facing the world’s youngest nation.

The plane carrying Mohamud departed from Adan Adde International Airport shortly after 12pm.

Fresh fighting erupted in Juba early last month between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his then First Vice President Riek Machar, threatening to take South Sudan back to civil war.

The renewed hostilities undermined a peace deal signed last August between parties involved in the conflict.