Following seven rounds of balloting, 60-year-old diplomat Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected the sixth chair of the African Union Commission in February 2025. Politics professor Ulf Engel, who is the ...

The AU’s inconsistent response to unconstitutional changes of power which suspends ...

The escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening on Saturday, with the DR Congo president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a ...

The African Union heads of state and government convened the 38th AU Summit during the previous two days and wrapped up tonight. And the African Union endorsed the theme "Justice for Africans and ...

The African Union has finally approved the operational framework for the new Africa Epidemics Fund — three years after African heads of state agreed to its creation. The fund will be used to ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders on Saturday elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission than runs the continent-wide African Union. Mahmoud Ali ...

The African Union’s 38th Ordinary Assembly began on Saturday in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, bringing together heads of state to discuss key regional and continental issues, including peace ...

African Leaders Elect Djibouti's Foreign Minister as New Leader of the African Union Commission ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders on Saturday elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to ...

Addis Ababa, February 15, 2025 (ENA) African leaders on Saturday elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission that runs the continent-wide African Union.