Increasing pressure on Guinea comes amid rising fears of democratic backsliding across West Africa, where strongmen are an increasingly familiar sight.
Africa is facing a Covid-19 resurgence as it lags in the global vaccination drive, with just 3.18% of its 1.3-billion population fully innoculated.
South Africa's Department of International Relations has accused the commission chair of failing to consult with member states before granting Israel's request.
The AU handed Israel the observer status on Thursday, a move the two parties expected would enable Israel to further help the AU battle the coronavirus pandemic and terrorism on the continent.
In a statement, the AU warned that if the military did not hand back power to civilian transitional leaders, 'the Council will not hesitate to impose targeted sanctions and other punitive measures'.
On Tuesday, clerk Vipya Harawa announced that he was suspending the session after three days of failed attempts to hold elections of office-bearers.
The new junta, headed by Idriss Deby Itno's four-star general son Mahamat, has appointed a transitional civilian government and promised on 20 April to hold elections within 18 months.
Africa is watching aghast as India struggles with coronavirus, fearing a long-running shortfall in the Indian-made vaccines that it needs to help shield its people.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the US government decision will be remembered by history as making the right move at the right time in a bid to help poor countries to gain access to coronavirus vaccine doses.
The African Union summit comes almost exactly one year after Egypt recorded the first case of COVID-19 in Africa, prompting widespread fears that member states' weak health systems would quickly be overwhelmed.
The Serum Institute of India is producing a vaccine using the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula, under the name of Covishield, for India and other developing countries.
The AMO's mission will be to collect, analyse and exchange data across 'an interconnected system' linking African countries to improve migration policies that are 'often ineffective due to a lack of data', according to the inauguration document.
Police barricaded Cellou Dalein Diallo inside his home in the capital Conakry last week, after he self-proclaimed victory in 18 October poll, triggering clashes which killed 21 people nationwide.
Ramaphosa said the ceasefire agreement, is an enforcement and observation of a critical first step to creating conducive conditions.
The mutineers met Mahmoud Dicko, a Salafist preacher who electrified protesters during anti-Keita demonstrations in recent weeks that drew tens of thousands of people.
Demonstrators notably torched the offices of the attorney of former justice minister Kassim Tapo.
The suspension will last until constitutional order is restored, it said, demanding the release of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and other senior officials.
Keita’s detention at his residence in southwestern Bamako followed hours of uncertainty after soldiers mutinied in the morning at the Kati military base outside Bamako and rounded up a number of senior civilian officials and military officers.
