{"id":52898,"date":"2025-02-08T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/au-commission-chairperson-asked-to-leave-eac-sadc-closed-door-session-on-drc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:22:26","slug":"au-commission-chairperson-asked-to-leave-eac-sadc-closed-door-session-on-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/au-commission-chairperson-asked-to-leave-eac-sadc-closed-door-session-on-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"AU Commission Chairperson asked to leave EAC-SADC closed-door session on DRC crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summit, held on February 8, 2025, focused on the deteriorating security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where clashes between a coalition fighting alongside the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group continue.<\/p>\n

Footage from the Tanzanian President\u2019s office showed Faki attending the summit\u2019s official opening alongside heads of state and representatives from various organizations. <\/p>\n

He had been invited by Kenya\u2019s President and EAC Chairperson, Dr. William Samoei Ruto, representing a key bloc in the discussions.<\/p>\n

However, before the summit moved into a closed session, the Master of Ceremonies (M.C.) requested Faki to leave. <\/p>\n

A diplomat attending the summit told Kenyan Foreign Policy that Faki complied but raised concerns about who had instructed the M.C. to make the request.<\/p>\n

Jevin Pillay Ponisamy, SADC\u2019s Ambassador to the AU, said it is customary for invited guests to leave once the closed-door discussions begin.<\/p>\n

Although this protocol was cited, Faki\u2019s exclusion created unease among some participants, leading organizers to invite him back.
\nAccording to the diplomat, Faki initially refused to return.<\/p>\n

The DRC government recently expressed disagreement with Faki regarding his views on security in the country\u2019s eastern region, after he suggested engaging in dialogue with a “political group with a military wing.”<\/p>\n

\"Moussa<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, has been asked to leave a closed-door session of the extraordinary summit of East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000081396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081396,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/faki_yasohowe_n_umusangiza_w_amagambo_asabwe_gusubira_mu_cyumba_cy_inama_arabyanga-c736d.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/faki_yasohowe_n_umusangiza_w_amagambo_asabwe_gusubira_mu_cyumba_cy_inama_arabyanga-c736d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/faki_yasohowe_n_umusangiza_w_amagambo_asabwe_gusubira_mu_cyumba_cy_inama_arabyanga-c736d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/faki_yasohowe_n_umusangiza_w_amagambo_asabwe_gusubira_mu_cyumba_cy_inama_arabyanga-c736d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/faki_yasohowe_n_umusangiza_w_amagambo_asabwe_gusubira_mu_cyumba_cy_inama_arabyanga-c736d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/faki_yasohowe_n_umusangiza_w_amagambo_asabwe_gusubira_mu_cyumba_cy_inama_arabyanga-c736d.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52898"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52898"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}