Press Release
IGAD, the Architect of South Sudan’s Secession, Returns to Resume Its Dirty Role
(Translated)

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) announced the opening of its office in Khartoum yesterday, Thursday, 30/07/2026. The organization’s Executive Secretary, Workneh Gebeyehu, said: “The office’s activities will not be limited to supporting peace processes but will extend to contributing to reconstruction projects...” IGAD is known as a semi-regional African intergovernmental organization, established in 1996 and headquartered in Djibouti. It includes Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Djibouti, and Eritrea.

It was originally established as an organization concerned with development and combating desertification and drought in 1986, under the name Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development. In 1996, it was restructured to become the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, with a broader mandate encompassing security and peace, as they claim!!

An organization such as this is established by the major colonial powers so that they can use it to carry out their conspiracies against our lands. This organization (IGAD) played an active role in the secession of South Sudan. The Machakos Protocol was sponsored under its auspices, and it provided the South with the right to self-determination. It also played an important role in the ill-fated Naivasha Agreement, which was the direct cause of South Sudan’s secession.

After the outbreak of the current war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the role this organization began to play was clear. It equated the army with the RSF to such an extent that it allowed Hemedti, the RSF commander, to attend an extraordinary summit of the organization’s leaders held in Kampala in January 2024. This prompted the Sudanese government to freeze its membership in the organization on 20 January 2024.

Unfortunately, it is now being allowed to return to carry out its dirty role.

O People of Sudan: The Prophet (saw) said: «لَا يُلْدَغُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مِنْ جُحْرٍ وَاحِدٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ» “A believer is not stung from the same hole twice.”

So how can you allow those who were responsible for the secession of South Sudan in favor of America to return and play the same role in separating Darfur, implementing America’s plan?!

Know, O people of Sudan, that nothing will save us from colonialism and its regional and local tools except the Islamic state—the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood—which will not allow such organizations to interfere in the affairs of the country. Nor will it allow their masters, the major colonial powers that created them, to interfere in our internal affairs.

The Khilafah is the instrument that will uproot the influence of the colonial disbelieving West from our lands, and indeed from across the world. So come, work for the Khilafah Rashidah upon the method of the Prophethood, for a dignified life in obedience to Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw).

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا للهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ]

“O you who believe! Respond to Allah and the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life.” [Al-Anfal:24]

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman for Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Sudan