ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Next month's African Union (AU) summit has been
moved to Ethiopia after scheduled host Malawi refused to welcome
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a war crimes suspect, an AU official
said on Monday.
'The summit was supposed to be held in Malawi but now it has been changed. It will be held in headquarters in Addis Ababa,' the chairman of the AU's permanent representatives committee, Ferdinand Montcho, told reporters.
Malawi on Friday cancelled its hosting of next month's summit after a row over the pan-African bloc's insistence on inviting Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The summit's scheduled July 9-16 dates are unchanged.
Source: The Straits Times
'The summit was supposed to be held in Malawi but now it has been changed. It will be held in headquarters in Addis Ababa,' the chairman of the AU's permanent representatives committee, Ferdinand Montcho, told reporters.
Malawi on Friday cancelled its hosting of next month's summit after a row over the pan-African bloc's insistence on inviting Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The summit's scheduled July 9-16 dates are unchanged.
Source: The Straits Times
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