The deals are a milestone and accolades are due to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his team of technocrats for steering the negotiations analysts say...

Regional alignments have changed radically since the ousting of Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and the National Congress Party regime in April 2019 and its replacement by a transitional government jointly led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok...

With total debt now well over twice GDP the relief is desperately needed but in enacting the economic reforms needed to gain IMF support Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has courted other difficulties (AC Vol 62 No 5 Stirring the regional pot)...

In 2019 Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok of Sudan with whom Ethiopia and Eritrea are in dispute became IGAD chair increasing Abiy's isolation...

Amhara resistance to the loss of Fashaq led to border clashes in December and Abiy angered Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok the chair of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) by his refusal to allow mediation over Tigray...

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok the chair of the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development flew into Addis Ababa on 13 December to make another effort on mediation although the talks also covered border demarcation and Sudan's reoccupation of the disputed al Fashqa border area and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)...

Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Burhan – the head of the Sovereignty Council the supreme authority running Sudan – were parties to the three-way talks with Israel and the US...

Calls for a ceasefire by IGAD chair Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok made during four telephone calls to Abiy were rejected...

Ethiopia's former Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyu is Executive Secretary of Intergovernmental Authority on Development and Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok another Abiy ally is the current chair...