African Union’s new chair has a long list of tough tasks – what it will take to get them done
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 ...
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The African Union Is Giving Djibouti’s Diplomatic Model a Try
Djibouti’s foreign minister is now leading the African Union, in a nod to the diplomatic agility of one of the continent’s ...
Judges finds a huge reduction in staff and funding would be legal at African development agency
A federal judge on Tuesday found that removing most grants and most staff from a U.S. federal agency that invests in African ...
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Can Angola advance African leadership as AU chair?
The office of the chair of the Assembly, which is mandated by Article 6(4) of the AU Constitutive Act, serves as a platform for advancing Africa’s interests on the global stage and has increasingly ...