According to Sudan Tribune, the meeting of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) on Sudan has been postponed indefinitely.
"It has been postponed, it is now scheduled tentatively for the 6th and 7th (of November) in Addis," an official at the Kenyan foreign ministry told Agence France Presse (AFP).
The Summit was originally supposed to take place in Nairobi On October 30, but it was rescheduled this week in Addis Ababa.
Most observers claim it was over unease at Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s possible attendance in Kenya. Last Monday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) asked Kenya "to take any necessary measure to ensure" Bashir is arrested or to explain "any problem which would impede or prevent" his arrest.
Kenya is a signatory of the ICC’s founding treaty and therefore theoretically under obligation to arrest Bashir if he enters the country. Ethiopia is not.
The Sudanese leader faces two arrest warrants against him from the ICC for war crimes and genocide he allegedly committed in Darfur.
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