African leaders on Saturday elected Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Djibouti’s long-serving foreign minister, the new chairperson of AU

African leaders have elected Djibouti’s Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, to chair the African Union commission. Djibouti’s finance minister, Ilyas Dawaleh, revealed this on Saturday. Youssouf won the required support of two-thirds of the region’s leaders in the Ethiopian capital,

At the opening of the 46th African Union summit, Moussa Faki Mahamat bids farewell as member states jockey for positions in the six commissions.

Africa needs leaders at the helm of the African Union Commission that can position the continent to move its agenda forward. This weekend, African Union member states will elect a new Chair, Deputy Chair and Commissioners for the African Union Commission (AUC).

Djibouti's Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf.

Ramaphosa was among the continent’s leaders in Ethiopia on Saturday when Angola’s Jaoa Lorenco assumed the Presidency of the continental body.

African leaders chose Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to chair the African Union commission on Saturday at a summit dominated by fears of the Congo war widening into a regional conflict,

At their annual summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the organization’s members elected Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as the next chair of the African Union Commission in a secret ballot.