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jgo

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Wed Dec 14, 2022, 10:20 AM Dec 2022

These five African countries were not invited to Biden's summit

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Source: thehill.com

The Biden administration is hosting a summit this week that brings together leaders of 49 African countries, as well as heads of the African Union, to collaborate on key policy across climate change, security and trade.

A senior White House official this week said four of those countries — Guinea, Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso — have changed their governments unconstitutionally and were suspended from the African Union.

The U.S. does not have formal ties with Eritrea, a country located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the continent, so the nation’s leaders were not invited.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/3773942-these-five-african-countries-were-not-invited-to-bidens-summit/

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These five African countries were not invited to Biden's summit (Original Post) jgo Dec 2022 OP
Eritrea and Sudan are adjacent . 2 wiki links Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #1
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Tetrachloride

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