African Union suspends Egypt

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Guardian.

The African Union has carried out its threat of suspending Egypt over the coup, according to AFP.




Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/jul/05/egypt-braced-day-of-rejection-live

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Above link is Guardian live. See 12.15pm BST which may show form abroad as 7.15am EST for example.

Will add AFP link if I can find it. ALL of Africa is in the African Union apart from Morocco.

UK ITV / ITN news link here :

The African Union (AU) on has suspended Egypt from all its activities after the Egyptian military overthrew elected president Mohamed Morsi, a senior AU official told Reuters.

Suspension is the AU's usual response to any interruption of constitutional rule by a member state.

"As mandated by the relevant AU instruments, the African Union Peace and Security Council decides to suspend the participation of Egypt in AU activities until the restoration of constitutional order," Admore Kambudzi, Secretary of the Peace and Security Council, said after a meeting.

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-07-05/african-union-suspends-egypt-after-leaders-overthrown/

Read elsewhere the African Union have classed this as a coup.

[another_liberal]

1. How about that!

What a surprise! There are still a few people out there who haven't yet bought into what a good times, sun-shiny, wonderfully democratic coup it is that has just removed the elected Egyptian government by force. How about that!

[kelliekat44]

2. Oh, but wait...it's on the AU..who are they to give actual support to democratic elections?

[another_liberal]

3. Every Head of State is opposed to coups.

As the President of Peru said recently:

"The only country in the World which doesn't have to worry about a military coup is the United States. That's because there is no U. S. embassy to coordinate the takeover."