Africa-Press – Kenya. African Union chief, Moussa Faki Mahamat said Israel’s observer status with the organization had been suspended and the country was therefore not invited to its weekend summit.
AU commission head Moussa Faki Mahamat said on Sunday, a day after the Israeli delegation was expelled from the opening ceremony of the summit in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa: he declared.
Moussa Faki Mahamat had granted this observer status to Israel in 2021. The announcement had sparked an outcry throughout the pan-African bloc and protests in particular from Algeria and South Africa. A committee of heads of state was then set up last year to discuss the withdrawal of accreditation. The statute had been suspended while the committee was deliberating.
added Moussa Faki Mahamat.
Following Saturday’s incident that went viral on social media, the Israeli regime accused what it called a handful of extremist states like Algeria and South Africa of being behind the this action.
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