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🌙✨ Eid Mubarak from IGAD Wishing you peace, joy, and unity this Eid. #RisingWithIGAD #OneRegionOneFuture

📢 New Resource! The IGAD Gendered Intersectionality Toolkit (2026) provides practical guidance for integrating gendered intersectionality into conflict prevention research across the IGAD region. Find the toolkit here: shorturl.at/v2c1G

📢 New Alert | Climate–Induced Conflict Risks This alert examines how rainfall variability during the Jan–Mar 2026 period may heighten conflict risks in vulnerable clusters across the IGAD region,including Abyei–Aweil, Ateker, and Mandera. Find it here: shorturl.at/w0S2I

Celebrating Women Across the IGAD Region This International Women’s Day, the IGAD Secretariat honors the resilience, leadership, and contributions of women who drive peace, prosperity, and progress across our region. Under the leadership of H.E. @DrWorkneh, the Secretariat has pioneered the mission of bringing women to decision-making tables across the region through initiatives such as the Women Forums on Peace, Agriculture, Digital Security and AI, Land Governance, and the IGAD Gender Strategy, creating platforms that amplify women’s voices and expand opportunities for their full participation. #InternationalWomensDay #RisingWithIGAD #OneRegionOneFuture

The toolkit strengthens conflict early warning by ensuring research captures how overlapping identities including gender, age, displacement, ethnicity, and disability—shape risks differently, enabling more inclusive, evidence-based, and effective policy responses.

🧵 At the ongoing IGAD Women, Peace & Security Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, CEWARN launched its Gendered Intersectionality Toolkit — a practical guide for integrating intersectional analysis into conflict prevention research across the IGAD region. 1/2

@IGADPeace @AbebeMuluneh Particular attention was given to the intersection between climate variability and security risks and the importance of anticipatory approaches. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening insight sharing and continued engagement on shared priorities. @eu_eeas @EUtoAU

The delegation also conferred with @IGADPeace Director @AbebeMuluneh on deepening strategic cooperation between IGAD and the EU in advancing peace and stability in the region as well as on strengthening early warning systems and preventive diplomacy across the IGAD region.

🧵 A European Union delegation led by Mr. Guillem Riutord Sampol, Head of Division at the European External Action Service (EEAS), visited #CEWARN and held discussions with @camluso and the team on regional early warning and conflict prevention efforts.

Following the resumption of the Republic of the Sudan to IGAD, I received H.E. Mohi El-Din Salem, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Sudan. We discussed the peace and security situation in the Sudan and the importance of sustained regional cooperation. I welcomed H.E. the Minister to the IGAD Council of Ministers, a key policy organ of the organisation. IGAD remains steadfast in its support for efforts aimed at achieving lasting peace and stability in the Sudan and across the region.

IGAD Executive Secretary Receives Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Sudan On the margins of the AU Summit, the IGAD Executive Secretary, H.E. @DrWorkneh, today received H.E. Mohi El Din Salem, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Sudan, following Sudan’s resumption of its membership. Discussions focused on the peace and security situation and the importance of sustained regional cooperation. The Executive Secretary welcomed the Minister to the IGAD Council of Ministers and reaffirmed IGAD’s commitment to supporting lasting peace and stability for the Sudanese people and the region. @MofaSudan #RisingWithIGAD #OneRegionOneFuture

AU–COMESA–IGAD Election Observation Mission 2026 | High-Level Security Engagement. 
📅 12 January 2026 | 📍 Kampala, Uganda The AU–COMESA–IGAD Election Observation Mission, led by H.E. Goodluck E. Jonathan (@GEJonathan), accompanied by Commander Abebe Muluneh of #IGAD and Amb. Shamsudin Ahmed of #COMESA, met with Inspector General of Police, Abbas Byakagaba. Discussions addressed election security preparedness, inter-agency coordination, and measures in place to maintain public order, protect candidates, electoral officials and secure polling processes nationwide. The engagement also covered the use of technology as well as efforts to uphold professionalism, neutrality and human rights in election security operations ahead of Uganda’s 2026 General Elections. 🤝 #UgandaDecides2026 #AUCOMESAIGADEOM
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AU–COMESA–IGAD Election Observation Mission to the Uganda Elections 2026 The IGAD Secretariat has deployed its Election Observation Mission to Uganda, joining the Joint AU–COMESA–IGAD Election Observers led by the former President of Nigeria, H.E. Goodluck Jonathan, in Kampala, ahead of the General Elections scheduled for 15 January 2026. H.E. @GEJonathan will be supported by Shemsudin Ahmed Roble, Member of the COMESA Committee of Elders, and @AbebeMuluneh, Director of @IGADPeace. Comprising 84 observers, the Mission will assess the electoral process with a focus on credibility, transparency, and peaceful conduct, in accordance with Uganda’s electoral legal framework, the OAU/AU Declaration on the Principles Governing Democratic Elections, the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG), and the International Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, among other applicable instruments. #UgandaElections @_AfricanUnion @COMESA_HQ @IGADPeace

Season's greetings and an end-of-year message from CEWARN Director Mr. Camlus Omogo!

The 20th technical meeting on early warning concluded with a reflection on the IGAD Strategy 2026–2030 & its Peace and Security Pillar that underpins the centrality of early warning and preventive diplomacy. The dialogue affirmed a shared priority in strengthening early response.

Some of the emerging priority concerns so far include: ▪️ conflict early warning support to member states conducting elections in 2025; ▪️ Strengthening national & sub-national early warning and response structures; and ▪️ Sustaining conflict prevention amid resource constraints.

The main agenda of the meeting is to validate the CEWARN Conflict Profiling and Scenario Building Report for 2025/2026, ahead of its submission to CEWARN's senior policy organ. The meeting also appraised the 2025 activities of CEWARN's national units and priorities for 2026.

🧵 The 20th CEWARN Technical Committee meeting on conflict early warning is underway in #Machakos, Kenya, with participation from heads of national conflict early warning units and civil society organizations from #Djibouti, #Ethiopia, #Kenya, #Somalia, #SouthSudan, and #Uganda.

For the first time in CEWARN history, leadership of national CEWERUs now stands at four women leaders out of the seven CEWERU Heads. A remarkable achievement by our Member States in engendering conflict early warning systems.