ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders chose Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to chair the African Union commission on Saturday at a summit dominated by fears of the Congo war widening into a regional conflict, the country's finance minister said.

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

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,

African leaders have elected Djibouti’s Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, to chair the African Union commission. Djibouti’s finance minister, Ilyas Dawaleh, revealed this on Saturday. Youssouf won the required support of two-thirds of the region’s leaders in the Ethiopian capital,

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the Foreign Minister of Djibouti, has been elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission.

At their annual summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the organization’s members elected Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as the next chair of the African Union Commission in a secret ballot.