Moussa Mahamat elected AU Commission chair

January 30, 2017
Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia

Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat elected new African Union Chair

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Chadian foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat (photo above) has been elected the African Union Commission chair in a close race.

African heads of states gathered in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to elect a new chairman.

Five candidates contended for the position to replace outgoing leader Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the first female to lead the bloc of 54 states, who is not seeking a second term in office after completing her four-year stint.

The contenders were: Kenya’s Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed, Abdoulaye Bathily, a Senegalese diplomat and academic, Chad’s Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat, Botswana’s Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, and Mba Mokuy, a former political adviser from the ex-Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea.

The AU was supposed to pick a new leader in July last year but the election was postponed following three rounds of voting after candidates failed to garner the required number of votes. A candidate needs to secure at least a two-thirds majority, 36 votes, to be declared winner.

More than 50 percent of the member states abstained from the second round of voting last year.

Who is Moussa Faki Mahmat:
Moussa Faki Mahamat was born on June 21, 1960 in the town of Biltine in eastern Chad. He was the Prime Minister of Chad from June 24, 2003 until February 4, 2005, and is a member of the Patriotic Salvation Movement. He was President of the Economic, Social, and Cultural Council from 2007 to 2008, and since April 2008 he has been Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He attended university in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo, where he studied law. He went into exile when Hissein Habré took power on June 7, 1982 and joined the Democratic Revolutionary Council headed by Acheikh Ibn Oumar; however, he did not return to Chad when Acheikh joined with Habré in 1988. He eventually returned on June 7, 1991, after Déby took power.

He was director-general of two ministries before serving as the Director-General of the National Sugar Society (SONASUT) between 1996 and 1999. He served as Director of President Déby's Cabinet from March 1999 to July 2002, and he was the director of Déby's campaign in the May 2001 presidential election.


Source: Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat elected new African Union Chair - African Spotlight
 
8 rounds? whoa!
lack of unity cost us .... A for effort..... Congrats to the chadian, hope he drastically changes the AU and not be a continium of the old guard of a foreign funded toothless body, we need a powerful body that is going to stand up for african people (like how ecowas did in gambia) we needan AU that is about youth employment, Security, health, education and most pressing is food security and human rights in Africa
 
Yes ...Now this Jubilee clowns prepare for more Ls that is Kenyan Heroes who died in Kubliyo working ....instead of Calling for National mourning and Controlling Hunger and Doctors strike They are busy spending Kenyas Money Across africa ....more Ls are coming shortly!!
 
Sammuel999 said:
Yes ...Now this Jubilee clowns prepare for more Ls that is Kenyan Heroes who died in Kubliyo working ....instead of Calling for National mourning and Controlling Hunger and Doctors strike They are busy spending Kenyas Money Across africa ....more Ls are coming shortly!!
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Yees
I want Jubilee to loose too

Though i dont kno if they will
 
Amina kamwagwa??Ndio maana Derby alikuja Dar kwa ziara ya siku mbili kumbe ilikuwa kumfungia kazi,Amina Mohamed?
 
Sammuel999 said:
Yes ...Now this Jubilee clowns prepare for more Ls that is Kenyan Heroes who died in Kubliyo working ....instead of Calling for National mourning and Controlling Hunger and Doctors strike They are busy spending Kenyas Money Across africa ....more Ls are coming shortly!!
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Imagine The so called Commander In-Chief hasnt said a word about the fallen heroes....its beyond sad
 
all that money spent to try and get amina to the AU chair lost....everyone is losing elections to the weaker candidate.....this year is an amazing year..now let us prepare for the loss of Kagame, Kenyatta
 
Jay456watt said:
all that money spent to try and get amina to the AU chair lost....everyone is losing elections to the weaker candidate.....this year is an amazing year..now let us prepare for the loss of Kagame, Kenyatta
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Hapo kwa Kagame utasubiri sana
 
I give a toss to Africa for not choosing our kenyan candidate. you waste billions of taxpayers money on one person while nyumbani watu wafa njaa. askari wetu somali ndio hao hamtamki lolote!!!! waliokufa 2007/2008 mkipigania mamlaka na walio katika mahema kenya bado wanasubiri msaada wa serikali. migomo ya wafanyikazi serikalini ni kushoto kulia hapa kenya na hamna suluhu ilihali mnatumia mabilioni yetu kutafuta uongozi wa africa eti mnazo suluhu, mbona hapa nyumbani hamna. nonsense!!
 
Kenya was given assistant AU chair as Chad took The chair, i think this was also a reason why Amina failed

Again, the former commission chair was a woman and it could not have been possible to be succeeded by a woman again!!

Otherwise against all this odds, her gaining 26 votes against 38 fo Mahamat shows how strong Kenya is on continental issues or else she could not have garnered anything at all
 
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