The press conference that President Ahmed Islam Mohamed Madobe of Jubbaland was scheduled to hold on February 5 has been called off.
Madobe was expected to hold a press conference on Friday to brief the country on the National Consultative Conference on elections.
The conference has been taking place in Dhusamareb since February 1.
As news that the talks had collapsed emerged, reports from the Office of the President in Jubbaland said that Madobe would be holding a press conference soon.
However, his office later issued a statement stating that the press conference had been called off.
The reasons for calling off the press conference are yet to be made clear.