Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected AU commission chief at a summit in Addis Ababa - Copyright AFP Amanuel Sileshi Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected AU commission chief ...

Mahamoud Ali Youssouf of Djibouti has been elected Chairperson of the African Union, AU, Commission. Youssouf emerged winner of the election after five rounds of voting on Saturday. He defeated ...

ADDIS ABABA: Few heads of diplomacy can boast the longevity of Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, foreign minister since 2005, who was elected Saturday (Feb 15) to head the African Union's ...

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

Djibouti’s long-serving Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected Saturday as head of the African Union Commission, securing the backing of regional leaders in Addis Ababa.

Youssouf won the required support of two-thirds of the region's leaders in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to secure the post representing some 1.5 billion Africans across the continent. The 59 ...

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.

Until his election as the AUC chair, Youssouf had served in the government of Djibouti as Minister of Foreign Affairs for two decades since 2005. He is an alumnus of University of Liverpool where ...

He said Mahmoud Ali Youssouf won 33 votes, beating veteran opposition Kenyan politician Raila Odinga to succeed Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat for a four-year term. The 59-year-old career diplomat has ...