{"id":423240,"date":"2024-01-04T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=423240"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:45:30","slug":"somali-mp-calls-for-relocating-au-headquarters-from-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-mp-calls-for-relocating-au-headquarters-from-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali MP calls for relocating AU headquarters from Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, SONNA &#8211; A prominent Somali politician has criticized Ethiopia for hosting the African Union headquarters while undermining Somalia&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Abdirahman Abdishakur warsame, a former Planning Minister and current MP, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) on Thursday to slam Ethiopia&#8217;s role as the host country for the continental organization.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Ethiopia&#8217;s actions were in &#8220;contradiction&#8221; and &#8220;disregard&#8221; of the AU charter, which he said was based on the &#8220;fundamental principles&#8221; of respecting the sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of member states.<\/p>\n<p>He also voiced his support for the idea of relocating the AU headquarters to another country that would &#8220;uphold and respect&#8221; the organization&#8217;s core values. He argued that this would enhance the security, peace, and stability of the region.<\/p>\n<p>The AU headquarters, which is located in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, has been hosting the organization since 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, SONNA &#8211; A prominent Somali politician has criticized Ethiopia for hosting the African Union headquarters while undermining Somalia&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Abdirahman Abdishakur warsame, a former Planning Minister and current MP, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) on Thursday to slam Ethiopia&#8217;s role as the host country for the continental organization. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":423241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-423240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423242,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423240\/revisions\/423242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}