African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat said in Brussels that the 'injustice' of past broken climate finance commitments 'must be righted'...

AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat is a former prime minister of Chad; and the regimes of Mahamat and his father have been close security allies of successive French governments (See Box 'Foreign' conspiracies blamed for unrest)...

Yet three days later that joint position was thrown into confusion when following a meeting alongside AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat with President Putin in Sochi Sall urged 'partners' to remove sanctions on Russian wheat and fertilisers that he said the country was ready to export...

Sall who is also political head of the African Union this year will be accompanied Moussa Faki Mahamat who chairs the AU Commission in Addis Ababa...

Earlier Sall had jointly signed a statement with the Chair of the AU Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat calling Moscow's invasion a breach of Ukraine's national sovereignty...

That initiative was stopped by AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat appealing to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to link the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the AU to the process...

While such immediate political manoeuvres play out Guterres has announced that he and AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat have asked Niger's former President Mahamadou Issoufou to lead a new Independent High Level Panel on Security and Development in the Sahel...