“This is not a summit directed against any third party,” former Egyptian assistant foreign minister Hussein Haridy told Arab News as the leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia gathered in New Alamein on Sunday amid mounting tensions in the Horn of Africa. “Rather, it is a consultative gathering held without a formal agenda,” Haridy said, adding that the meeting was intended to exchange views on developments in the Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden and their political and economic implicatio

Source: Arab News