Published on 18/02/2025
Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf triumphed over Kenya’s Raila Odinga and Madagascar’s ex-foreign minister Richard Randriamandrato.
African leaders elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission than runs the continent-wide African Union.
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, Ethiopian capital.
The AU has 55 member states. Presidents or heads of government pick the commission’s leader, who is effectively the chief executive of the Addis Ababa-based secretariat running the AU.
Youssouf, who will serve a four-year term, replaces Moussa Faki of Chad, who has held the post since 2017.
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Profile (Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf)
