{"id":25247,"date":"2021-07-22T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25247"},"modified":"2021-07-22T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:09:37","slug":"israel-gets-observer-status-at-african-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/israel-gets-observer-status-at-african-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Gets Observer Status At African Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel has been given observer status at the African Union<a href=\"https:\/\/mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/PressRoom\/2021\/Pages\/Israel-rejoins-the-African-Union-as-an-observer-state-22-July-2021.aspx?fbclid=IwAR026w8DOh9BVs6kn5XPGjgrCG_F_skGjHDvjMX2RZn22OV_2N7sAUPEmUM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, a statement from Israel&#8217;s foreign ministry says<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a day of celebration for Israeli-Africa relations,\u201d Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe diplomatic achievement is the result of efforts by the Foreign Ministry, the African Division and Israeli embassies on the continent. This is a corrective step to the anomaly that has prevailed for almost two decades and is an important part of strengthening Israel\u2019s foreign relations fabric.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel currently has diplomatic relations with 46 of the AU\u2019s 55 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, it normalised relations with both Morocco and Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel was an observer member of the Organisation of African Unity, which was disbanded in 2002 to make way for the AU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has been given observer status at the African Union, a statement from Israel&#8217;s foreign ministry says. \u201cThis is a day of celebration for Israeli-Africa relations,\u201d Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said. \u201cThe diplomatic achievement is the result of efforts by the Foreign Ministry, the African Division and Israeli embassies on the continent. This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31,109],"class_list":["post-25247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25249,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions\/25249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}