President Uhuru Kenyatta has departed for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend an IGAD Summit on South Sudan.
Uhuru will join other leaders at the Addis meeting in the latest regional effort to push for a lasting solution to the challenges facing the world’s youngest nation.
Fresh fighting erupted in Juba early last month between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his then First Vice President Riek Machar, threatening to move South Sudan back to civil war.
The renewed hostilities undermined a peace deal signed last August between parties involved in the South Sudan conflict.
Presidents Kenyatta and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn helped mediate the negotiations that culminated in the signing of the peace agreement.
According to the PSCU, the plane carrying the President departed JKIA shortly after 1pm.
Uhuru was seen off by the Cabinet Minister for Interior and Coordination of National Government, Joseph Nkaissery and other senior government officials.