Moussa Faki Mahamat

'The reality is clear that the EPAs were badly negotiated and apart from the SADC most of them have not been implemented ' says Lopes the former executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa who was appointed to lead the AU's post-Cotonou negotiations by Moussa Faki Mahamat at the Nouakchott summit...

At June's African Union summit in Nouakchott AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat had appealed for tough measures to send a 'clear message to the players to respect their commitments' (AC Vol 59 No 2 Cycle of broken deals)...

Also involved are the African Union Commission chaired by former Chadian foreign minister Dr Moussa Faki Mahamat the AU's High-Level Ad Hoc Committee on South Sudan led by High Representative for South Sudan former Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré and the 'C5 group' of non-IGAD African countries selected to assist with the peace process: Algeria Chad Nigeria South Africa and Tanzania as well as the Troika of United States United Kingdom and Norway and a few others including China...

However if African leaders have so far refused to host the new centres the chair of the AU commission Moussa Faki Mahamat said that the continent bore its own responsibility for the migration crisis condemning what he described as 'intolerable actions' committed against African migrants on their own continent...

'Cooperation with Africa goes far beyond migration ' said Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker following a meeting with AU counterpart Moussa Faki Mahamat in Brussels on 23 May...

Burkina Faso recalled its ambassador from Libya in protest and the AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat ordered an inquiry...

In October AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat was tasked with coming up with a face-saving formula...

However AU chair Moussa Faki Mahamat did not come to Monrovia...

Many heard Farmajo promise to defeat the Islamist insurgents of Al Shabaab in two years including United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May and her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson; May's Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim head of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party); United States Defense Secretary James Mattis; Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta; Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni; Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia and Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat the new African Union Chairperson (AC Vol 58 No 4 MPs reject foreigners' choice & Vol 58 No 3 The scramble for the chair)...

He is Moussa Faki Mahamat...

Chad's foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat and Senegalese politician-turned-diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily have joined the field...

President Déby held a meeting earlier that day with Industry Minister Ousmane Mahamat Nour Elimi Petroleum Minister Tabe and Foreign Affairs Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat to determine the course of action...