At the 31st annual African Union (AU) summit commemorating the victims of
the Rwandan g*nocide on 7 April, Israeli Ambassador to Ethiopia Abraham
Nigusse was expelled from the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa and not from
Ethiopia as reported in certain quarters. Several AU member states had
objected to the ambassador’s presence at the event. [...]
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Israeli Ambassador Expelled From African Union SummitAt the 31st annual African Union (AU) summit commemorating the victims of the Rwandan g*nocide on 7 April, Israeli Ambassador to Ethiopia Abraham Nigusse was expelled from the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa and not from Ethiopia as reported in certain quarters. Several AU member states had objected to the ambassador’s presence at the event. Israeli Foreign Minister Oren Marmorstein condemned the action, calling it ‘shameful.’
However, this was not the first diplomatic clash between Israel and the AU. In February 2023, the AU expelled uninvited Israeli diplomats from a summit amidst protests from member states after learning the Israeli delegation lacked accreditation. The move resulted in the AU revoking Israel’s observer status, granted in 2021, to the uproar of many member states.
In February 2024, the AU also condemned Israel’s occupation and atrocities committed in Palestine.
The African country of Libya applied to join South Africa’s December 2023 g*nocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, while Egypt has expressed its intention to join.
The solidarity is not an anomaly as Africa also shares historical ties with Palestine, with South African leader Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) quoted saying, ‘Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestinians.’
Israel’s presence at the g
nocide commemoration is also ironic considering its ongoing massacres in Gaza, which the ICJ ruled as ‘plausible’ gnocide.
In July 2024, the British medical journal Lancet put the death toll in Gaza since 7 October 2023 at over 186,000.
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