Djibouti’s Mahamoud Youssouf elected AU commission chair in tightly contested election

NigerianEye
Mahamoud Youssouf, Djibouti’s foreign minister, has been
elected as the new chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission.

Youssouf won Saturday’s election after seven rounds of
voting by the union’s 49 member states.

He won the election with 33 votes in the final round,
constituting the required two-thirds.

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