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Djibouti’s foreign minister elected to top African Union post

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected as the next leader of the African Union Commission, defeating Raila Odinga and Richard Randriamandrato at the AU summit in Addis Ababa.
Youssouf will serve a four-year term, replacing Moussa Faki of Chad, who held the position since 2017.
Raila Odinga, a former Prime Minister of Kenya, experienced a setback in his bid for the AU role, which he had hoped would be his final public position.
As head of the AU Commission, Youssouf will face challenges from military juntas in West Africa and a violent rebellion in eastern Congo.

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Djibouti's foreign minister elected chairman of African Union

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, Addis Ababa to secure the post, representing some 1.5 billion Africans across the continent. The multilingual politician who speaks Arabic, English and French re…

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Le Point.fr

African leaders elected Djiboutian Mahamoud Ali Youssouf as Chairman of the Commission

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Djiboutian Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, new Chairperson of the African Union Commission

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Foreign Minister Djibouti elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission

The new president of the AU Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, pledged to strengthen regional security and foster unity among the nations of the region. African leaders elected the Foreign Minister of Djibouti, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, this Saturday, as the new chairman of the African Union Commission (AU), after reaching 33 votes needed to replace the Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat, who had two consecutive terms in front of the organization.

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