Djibouti’s foreign affairs minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has been elected as new African Union Commission chairperson in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He has defeated Kenyan ex-premier Raila Odinga, who had asked for support from Namibian president Nangolo Mbumba and Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Youssouf has also defeated Madagascar’s ex-foreign affairs minister, Richard Randriamandrato. -African Union
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