Ministerial committee of the African Union (AU) will meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia next week to approve the nominees for the new African Union Commission chairperson who will take over from the Dlamini-Zuma led administration.
Dring the 27th Heads of State Assembly of the African Union (AU) meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, from July 17-18, 2016, the heads of state were supposed to elect individuals to lead the AU for the next four years.
One of the most important functions that the delegates were expected to perform was to elect the chairperson of the AU Commission to replace the present chairperson, South Africa’s Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, who had indicated that she would not seek re-election.
Three candidates were standing for the position. These were Dr. Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, foreign minister of Botswana, Dr. Specioza Waigaga Wandira Kazibwe, former vice president of Uganda, and Mr. Agapito Mba Mokuy, foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea.
However, the election for the chairperson has been postponed until January 2017. The AU took that decision based on the fact that none of the three candidates had secured the two-thirds majority of votes needed to win.