Mogadishu(Halbeeg)- The president of the federal republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo is expected to jet off to Addis Ababa to attend an extra-ordinary IGAD summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday.
President Farmajo will attend Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( IGAD) summit which is set to discuss the situation in South Sudan.
The summit will be attended by all the members of IGAD.
IGAD summit comes hours after a meeting between president Salva Kirr of South Sudan and his rival Riek Machar on Wednesday. Detail about their talks on Wednesday is yet to be released.
President Kiir and his former vice president met for the first time in two years in Addis Ababa for talks hosted by the new Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Their meeting comes ahead of a June 30 deadline for talks between the South Sudanese rivals so that they occur before the African Union summit in Mauritania at the beginning of July.
On the other hand president Farmajo is expected to hold separate meetings with the heads of IGAD member states in Addis Ababa.
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