BREAKING NEWS: White Smoke Blows - African Union Decides, CHAD (ECCAS) WINS TO HEAD THE COMMISSION; GUINEA'S ALPA CONDE TAKES OVER FROM CHAD'S IDRISS DEBY

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Subject: BREAKING NEWS: White Smoke Blows - African Union Decides, CHAD (ECCAS) WINS TO HEAD THE COMMISSION; GUINEA'S ALPA CONDE TAKES OVER FROM CHAD'S IDRISS DEBY





Happening in the ongoing 28th Ordinary African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

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The contestants from left to right.
Botswana's Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi; Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat; Equatorial Foreign Minister Agapito Mba Mokuy; Kenya's Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed; UN diplomat and academic from Senegal, Abdoulaye Bathily.

CHAD WINS! MINISTER MOUSSA FAKI MAHAMAT

Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki was elected as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Monday.  Faki's main rival in the last round of voting was Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed. The new Chairperson of the AU Commission will lead for the next four years. 
 

Guinean President Conde takes over from Deby as AU Chairperson

Guinean President, Alpha Condé Alpha Conde, has been elected the new chairperson of the African Union (AU). He takes over from Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno.
The Chairperson of the African Union is  is elected by the Assembly of Heads of State for a one-year term. It rotates among the continent's five regions - North, Central, East, West and Southern African regions.

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King Mohammed VI of Morocco
King Mohammed VI
 Morocco insists on its natural place in the institutional family in  African Union as it seeks to rejoin in the African Union after 33 years of absence over the dispute with Western Sahara.

Sources indicate Morocco the "final written" support of over 40 member states, which is more than the two-third necessary to get the approval.


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