Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf held off veteran Kenyan presidential candidate and dealmaker Raila Odinga to be elected as the next chair of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa on 15 February replacing Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat (AC Vol 66 No 4 Pan-Africanism is on the ballot)...
Much hinges on whether African leaders vote for Odinga to replace Moussa Faki Mahamat as Chair of the African Union Commission at the AU summit on 15 February...
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African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat described the Ankara agreement as an ‘important act of high responsibility' but the AU's absence from the mediation process has done nothing to advance its own credibility...
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Vol 65 No 21 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Indeed there are concerns among some officials in Nairobi that the February election could see a repeat of the 2017 AUC election when Kenya's candidate Amina Mohamed lost to Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat...
Odinga initially signalled his plans to succeed Chadian incumbent Moussa Faki Mahamat as AUC chairman in February and was quickly endorsed by most of Kenya's political establishment (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...
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Vol 65 No 18 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
Ali Youssouf who is a candidate to replace Moussa Faki Mahamat as chair of the African Union Commission (AUC) next February said that the arrangement would give Ethiopia access to the port as well as ‘a brand-new corridor to the northern border of Djibouti'...
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The broader theme at the AfDB meetings taken up by Adesina Ruto and other African leaders including Moussa Faki Mahamat chair of the African Union (AU) Commission is that the continent's economies are as dynamic as any others but are hamstrung by a rigged financial system...
Since securing presidential support in February for his campaign to replace AUC chair Moussa Faki Mahamat next February Odinga has abandoned partisan politics prompting fears among his Azimio la Umoja coalition that the veteran opposition leader has effectively been co-opted into government (AC Vol 65 No 5 Veterans seek a last hurrah in Addis)...
The African Union High Level Panel on Sudan (HLP) set up by AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat after its summit last month has just completed its first regional tour...
Ruto has quickly moved Odinga into pole position in the race to succeed Chad's former Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat next February securing the endorsement of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni...