Djibouti’s Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has been elected chair of the African Union Commission. He succeeds Moussa Faki, a former prime minister of Chad, who had led the 55-nation bloc since 2017. Youssouf defeated former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Madagascar’s ex-Foreign Minister Richard Randriamandrato in a vote at the AU summit in… Read More »Djibouti’s Mahmoud Ali Youssouf Elected New AU Commission Chair
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