The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has unanimously agreed to unfreeze Egypt’s membership to the AU, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.
The decision comes after almost a year of Egypt being suspended from the 54-nation bloc just days after the overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi, citing a need to restore “constitutional order”. It is the AU’s policy to suspend any member state that undergoes an “unconstitutional” change of government.
However, in April – a few weeks before the presidential election which brought Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to power – AU head Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that Egypt would return to the union after the implementation of its transitional roadmap…
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