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African Union Commission Chair Election Postponed

The list of candidatures has been re-opened with election re-scheduled for January 2017.

Candidates aspiring to replace Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the position of the Chairperson of the African Union  Commission can go back to the drawing board and map out more wining strategies as the list of candidatures is once more opened as  election will only  hold  during the next African Union  summit in  January 2017.

Heads of State and governments of the African Union during the AU 27th Summit in Kigali, Rwanda from July 16 to 18, 2016  took the decision to postpone the election  to January 2017  as there was no consensus on the new AU Commission chairperson, RFI reported. None of the three candidates aspiring for the post obtained the required two- thirds majority of the required votes. This therefore necessitated the postponement of the poll and hence the decision to re-open the candidature lists to more aspirants.

The three candidates who contested for the position in Kigali included; Specioza Wandira Kazibwe, former Ugandan Vice President, Pelonomi Venson Moitoi, Botswana Foreign Minister, and Agapito Mba Mokuy, Equatorial Guinea Foreign Minister, Africanews reported. RFI reported that over 20 countries abstained from voting. Reports further disclosed that the 15 countries of the West African block had earlier made a declaration calling for the postponement of the election.

While waiting for AU Commission chairperson election next year, the Kigali summit enters the annals of history as that in which Morocco rejoined the union. The summit also goes into records as one in which the African Union (AU) passport was launched  aimed at facilitating free movement of people in the continent.  Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, Chairperson of the AU and President Paul Kagame of the Republic of Rwanda received the first passports handed to them by the Chairperson of the AU Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.

African Union leaders have adopted the initiative to set up Pan-African Centre for Disease- Control and stated the need for Africa to fully finance itself as well as its peace and security missions. The African Union Advisory Committee has also recommended that Africa pulls out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the court of lacking objectivity.

 

 

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