{"id":9037,"date":"2023-09-07T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:30:32","slug":"g20-set-to-grant-membership-to-african-union-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9037\/g20-set-to-grant-membership-to-african-union-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 set to grant membership to African Union, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Group of 20, comprising the world’s richest and most powerful countries, will grant membership to the African Union, sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The move would give the African Union, a continental body of 55 member states, the same status as the European Union – the only regional bloc with a full membership currently – up from its current designation of “invited international organization”.<\/p>\n

An AU official told Reuters that the group was being made a permanent member. The official did not want to be named as he was not authorised to speak on the subject.<\/p>\n

A top government official from South Africa, which is a G20 member<\/a>, said that the language for the induction of AU into the G20 bloc was still being discussed but it could be firmed up by Friday.<\/p>\n

The South African official, who did not want to be named before the decision was made public, however said that there was still a possibility that someone might veto the resolution.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear if the decision would be announced at the annual G20 leaders’ summit in New Delhi over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Two Indian sources told Reuters that membership for AU was expected to be formalised only next year, when Brazil takes over the presidency of G20 from India.<\/p>\n

There were no objections against the move from any of the members, one of the Indian sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity citing government rules.<\/p>\n

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0to the leaders of the G20 nations in June proposing that the AU be given full, permanent membership of the bloc at the upcoming summit in the Indian capital.<\/p>\n

In an article published across Indian and international newspapers on Thursday, Modi wrote, “Our presidency has not only seen the largest-ever participation from African countries but has also pushed for the inclusion of the African Union as a permanent member of the G20”.<\/p>\n

The G20 currently comprises 19 countries and the European Union. The members represent around 85% of global GDP, more than 75% of global trade and about two-thirds of the world population.<\/p>\n

South Africa, which has supported the admission of the AU, declined immediate comment ahead of the Delhi summit. South African presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said: “We wouldn’t comment now until the official announcement or post the summit.”<\/p>\n

Countries including Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Canada have also voiced support for African Union membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Group of 20, comprising the world’s richest and most powerful countries, will grant membership to the African Union, sources said on Thursday. The move would give the African Union, a continental body of 55 member states, the same status as the European Union – the only regional bloc with a full membership currently – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Reuters","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1116,32],"tags":[49,1384,1349,122],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-union","category-economy","tag-african-union","tag-g20","tag-india","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}