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...
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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...
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Vol 63 No 5 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
On the same day the African Union's political head Senegal's President Macky Sall and its administrative leader Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat called for an 'immediate ceasefire' and for Russia to respect the 'territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Ukraine...
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This week African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat for whom Diop worked as chief of staff in Addis visited Bamako to explore the options for compromise...
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Vol 63 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Awkwardly for the AU Commission its current chairperson and head of administration is Moussa Faki Mahamat a former foreign minister to the late Chadian president...
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Michel invited to pre–summit gatherings in Brussels Senegal's President Macky Sall Congo–Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi Rwanda's Paul Kagame and African Union Commission Chair Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat (AC Vol 63 No 1 Macron pushes the EU into Africa)...
On 19 December Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and Senegal's President Macky Sall the present and next holders of the AU presidency respectively joined Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat in Brussels for talks with European Council President Charles Michel to lay the groundwork for an Africa-Europe summit on 17-18 February...