{"id":46999,"date":"2023-08-07T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:30:35","slug":"mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata","title":{"rendered":"Mali\ufeff, Burkina Faso declare African Union chairperson persona non grata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>*Writing by Esra Tekin <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Mali and Burkina Faso decided Sunday to declare the head of the African Union (AU) persona non grata due to a controversy over a family photo taken during last month\u2019s Russia-Africa Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Azali Assoumani, the president of Comoros and current AU chairperson, refused to appear in the photo with the leaders of Burkina Faso and Mali, both of which have military-led governments, during the summit in Saint Petersburg on July 27.<\/p>\n<p>Assoumani was expected to visit Mali and Burkina Faso from Aug. 14 as the AU leader, but the visit was canceled after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>During the summit, some African leaders boycotted the family photo in protest against being photographed with the leaders of coup governments.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Assoumani, other leaders who abstained from the photo included Senegal\u2019s President Macky Sall, Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat and Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed that these leaders did not want to be photographed alongside Mali\u2019s President Assimi Goita and Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore, both of whom came to power through coups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Writing by Esra Tekin Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Mali and Burkina Faso decided Sunday to declare the head of the African Union (AU) persona non grata due to a controversy over a family photo taken during last month\u2019s Russia-Africa Summit. Azali Assoumani, the president of Comoros and current AU chairperson, refused to appear in the photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,481,6308,86,234,3625,6403],"class_list":["post-46999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-african-union","tag-azali-assoumani","tag-burkina-faso","tag-malawi","tag-mali","tag-persona-non-grata"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mali\ufeff, Burkina Faso declare African Union chairperson persona non grata - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mali and Burkina Faso decided Sunday to declare the head of the African Union (AU) persona non grata due to a controvers ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mali\ufeff, Burkina Faso declare African Union chairperson persona non grata\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mali and Burkina Faso decided Sunday to declare the head of the African Union (AU) persona non grata due to a controvers ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-07T10:11:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-07T10:30:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/08\/sm_1691387895.167116.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"766\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mali\ufeff, Burkina Faso declare African Union chairperson persona non grata\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-07T10:11:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-07T10:30:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/08\/sm_1691387895.167116.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"african union\",\"Azali Assoumani\",\"Burkina Faso\",\"Malawi\",\"Mali\",\"Persona Non Grata\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mali-burkina-faso-declare-african-union-chairperson-persona-non-grata\",\"name\":\"Mali\ufeff, Burkina Faso declare African Union chairperson persona non grata - 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