Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission has announced that Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Sudan will remain suspended from the pan-African organization following the summit in Ethiopia.
The three countries had asked on the 10th of February for the lifting of their suspension from ECOWAS, but member countries decided to maintain the suspension of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea and impose travel bans on government officials and representatives.
Mali, Guinea and Sudan were suspended in 2021, Burkina Faso followed a year later, after the military took power.