The African Union on Monday has announced that it has suspended Burkina Faso from all activities of the 55-member continental body following a recent military coup that toppled the government led by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
The AU’s 15-member Peace and Security Council declared on Twitter that it had voted to suspend Burkina Faso’s participation “in all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country”
“Council decides in line w/ the relevant AU instruments (AU Constitutive Act; AUPSC Protocol; African Charter on Democracy, Elections & Governance), to suspend the participation of #BurkinaFaso in all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country,” the union said on Twitter.
Following the coup last Monday, another major West African regional bloc also removed Burkina Faso from its governing organizations.
Kabore was detained on Monday and later forced to resign.
Since the takeover by the military, which calls itself the Patriotic Movement for Liberation and Restoration, those close to the deposed president have been arrested.