Burkina Faso suspended from African Union
Part of: Prelims and GS-II International Relations
Context: The African Union recently suspended Burkina Faso a week after the volatile country suffered its latest coup.
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About African Union
- It is a continental union consisting of 55 countries of Africa.
- In 2017, the AU admitted Morocco as a member state.
- The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya in 1999.
- It was founded in 2001 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- It was launched in 2002 in Durban, South Africa.
- The AU’s secretariat, the African Union Commission, is based in Addis Ababa
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