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 ...

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

The Djiboutian presidency's spokesman has said that Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected Saturday as the chairman of ...

The African Union Commision has new leadership in Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. But how will the AUC handle deepening ...

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

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

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

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

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Djibouti's Foreign Minister, was elected to chair the African Union commission amidst concerns of Congo's war escalating into a regional conflict. Youssouf, who has been in ...

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.