The Heads of State and Authorities of the African Union, on Saturday, elected the President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ghazouani, as the brand new chairman of the union for 2024.
He was elected through the ongoing thirty seventh Peculiar Session of the Meeting of the African Union Heads of State and Authorities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ghazouani takes the baton of management from President Azali Assoumani of the Union of Comoros, who served because the AU Chairperson for 2023.
The bloc managed to keep away from a disaster on one other entrance by defusing tensions over the one-year rotating AU chairmanship, which was transferred Saturday from Comoros President Azali Assoumani to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani.
The succession had lengthy been blocked by a dispute between Morocco and Algeria, highlighting inner divisions throughout the AU even because it seeks to have a stronger voice on the worldwide stage, together with within the G20 grouping which it joined in September.
Portending extra challenges, 19 presidential or common elections are scheduled on the continent this yr.
“The AU has bold institutional commitments and instruments for mediation and peacekeeping however lacks the political and monetary energy to benefit from them,” the Worldwide Disaster Group stated in a briefing word.
“Member states are trying inward, carefully defending their sovereign prerogatives somewhat than investing in collective safety.”
One other main topic of dialogue on the summit is predicted to be how the AU will transition to counting on African states to fund most of its finances somewhat than overseas donors.
The UN Safety Council in December adopted a decision to finance AU-led peace missions, however capped it at 75 % of the finances.
