Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat elected AU Commission Chairman

Chad’s foreign minister Moussa Faki was elected as the chairman of the African Union Commission on Monday, a Chadian official told Reuters on Monday at a summit of the 54-nation body.

Faki’s main rival in the last round of voting at the AU, which is based in Addis Ababa, was Kenyan foreign minister Amina Mohamed.

Senegal had also fielded a candidate who was knocked out in an earlier round of voting.

Source: Reuters