{"id":223287,"date":"2026-02-09T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/sudan-igad-celebrates-sudans-return-emphasizes-collective-commitment-to-stability\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:40:52","slug":"sudan-igad-celebrates-sudans-return-emphasizes-collective-commitment-to-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/sudan-igad-celebrates-sudans-return-emphasizes-collective-commitment-to-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: IGAD Celebrates Sudan&#8217;s Return, Emphasizes Collective Commitment to Stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>IGAD has welcomed Sudan&#8217;s decision to resume full participation in the regional bloc, describing the move as a reaffirmation of solidarity and a collective commitment to peace, stability, and cooperation across East Africa and the Horn of Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretary Workneh Gebeyehu emphasized that Sudan, as a founding Member State, plays a pivotal role in strengthening the bloc&#8217;s unity and enhancing its capacity to address shared&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090144.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 IGAD has welcomed Sudan&#8217;s decision to resume full participation in the regional bloc, describing the move as a reaffirmation of solidarity and a collective commitment to peace, stability, and cooperation across East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretary Workneh Gebeyehu emphasized that Sudan, as a founding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6547,10163,6307,16239,554,430,257,6656,254,9185,4708,8105],"class_list":["post-223287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-celebrates","tag-collective","tag-commitment","tag-emphasizes","tag-igad","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stability","tag-sudan","tag-sudans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}