On May 29, South Africans will vote to elect a new National Assembly and the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces.
The ECOWAS Commission’s president said the withdrawal notifications by the Niger Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso had wider implications.
The union’s chairman, Moussa Faki Mahamat, in a statement, said he stands behind the group’s response to the coup in Niger.
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has condemned the violence from the power struggle between two generals in Sudan.
State TV showed Putin greeting Senegalese President Macky Sall, chairman of the AU, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the AU Commission.
The East African nation will go to the polls on August 9 to elect a new president, national lawmakers, and the governors and assemblies of its 47 counties.
The security source in the region said several follow-up operations were going on after al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants overran the camp the previous day.
Thousands of African and other foreign nationals, particularly students, have been scrambling to leave Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
The AU said South Africa was being condemned for its transparency in informing the international community of the emergence of Omicron.
The former Nigerian president is expected at the commission’s office in the coming weeks.
