As the new AUC chair, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf will need to reform his organisation, before he attempts to reform Africa.

Opinion - The Africa Union, AU, 38th Summit from February 15-16, 2025 promised to be challenging as the body had to elect a new Chairperson for the African Union Commission, AUC, which is its engine ...

A letter from the SADC Secretariat confirmed that Madagascar had formally requested the support of the 16 member states for Randriamandrato’s candidacy. The SADC Secretariat noted that ...

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 ...

Djibouti's foreign minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, was elected as the new leader of the African Union Commission. He defeated Kenya's Raila Odinga and Madagascar's Richard Randriamandrato. Youssouf ...

He's up against Madagascar's former Foreign Minister Richard Randriamandrato, an economist promising to reshape the whole continent's image. But leading the race is Kenyan political heavyweight ...

African leaders elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission than runs the continent-wide African Union ...

Richard J. Randriamandrato, is a seasoned diplomat and public administrator with over three decades of expertise in ...

Amid rapidly-growing uncertainty and challenges, the mid-February election of the African Union Commission's chairperson, ...

The other candidate is former Madagascar Foreign Minister Richard Randriamandrato. The Assembly will meet tomorrow to vote for the AUC chair and on Sunday to formally appoint the four ...