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African Union lifts sanctions against Gabon

The newly inaugurated monument topped with the shape of Africa at the Adwa Victory Memorial museum in Addis Ababa. [Michele Spatari, AFP

The African Union has lifted sanctions against Gabon, it said in a statement on Wednesday, after the central African nation was suspended from the organisation following a coup in August 2023.

A meeting of the Peace and Security Council on Gabon's political transition "reviewed the processes and found them to be generally successful", the AU's Political Affairs Peace and Security department said on X.

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