Africa: Govt Not Invited to U.S.-Africa Summit

Washington DC — The White House has declined to invite Sudan, Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso, to the US-Africa Leaders Summit, to be held in Washington DC from December 13 to 15. The Biden administration, hosting the summit, has invited the head of the African Union, as well as 49 African heads of state. The US does intend to engage with civil society organisations in those countries.

Notably absent from the list of invitees to the Washington summit are the governments of Sudan, Mali, Guinea,…