Somalia: Sudan Officials Snub Nairobi Talks

21 October 2008

Nairobi — Top Sudanese government officials will not attend an Inter-Government Authority on Development meeting slated for Kenya next week in what is seen as an escalation of differences on the hijacked Ukrainian ship with weapons, whose destination is controversial.

Government sources in Khartoum told the Nation that neither President al-Bashir, Vice-President Ali Osman Taha nor the minister for Foreign Affairs Deng Alor will attend the October 26-29 meeting.

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