{"id":2813,"date":"2014-06-18T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:36:47","slug":"african-union-unfreeze-egypts-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/african-union-unfreeze-egypts-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union unfreeze Egypt&#8217;s membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Union&#8217;s Peace and Security Council has unanimously agreed to unfreeze Egypt&#8217;s membership to the AU, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;constitutional order&#8221;. It is the AU&#8217;s policy to suspend any member state that undergoes an &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; change of government.<\/p>\n<p>However, in April \u2013 a few weeks before the presidential election which brought Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to power \u2013 AU head Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that Egypt would return to the union after the implementation of its transitional roadmap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/103986\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Egypt-regains-membership-in-African-Union.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Union&#8217;s Peace and Security Council has unanimously agreed to unfreeze Egypt&#8217;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 &#8220;constitutional order&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[953,258,256,580,714,4697,415,633,257,4694,340,254],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fattah-el-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-au","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-mohamed-morsi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-sisi","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}