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 ...

Kenya's bid for the African Union Chairperson position ends in disappointment as Raila Odinga's campaign fails despite strong backing.The African Union (AU) elections concluded last Saturday with the ...

Djibouti’s long-serving Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected Saturday as head of the African Union Commission, ...

African leaders on Saturday elected Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Djibouti’s long-serving foreign minister, the new chairperson of AU ...

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI congratulated Mahmoud Ali Youssouf on his election as President of the African Union Commission, ...

Djibouti’s Foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf is the next Africa Union Commission (AUC) chairperson, after garnering the ...

Few heads of diplomacy can boast the longevity of Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, foreign minister since 2005, who was ...

African leaders chose Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to chair the African Union commission on Saturday at a ...

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf defeated Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya, and Richard Randriamandrato, an ex-foreign minister of Madagascar, in a vote at the AU summit in Addis Ababa, the ...

Youssouf won the required support of two-thirds of the region's leaders in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to secure the ...

Few heads of diplomacy can boast the longevity of Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Djibouti's foreign minister since 2005, who was elected Saturday to head the African Union's executive commission.