Chad’s Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat elected the African Union Commission chair

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Chad’s Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat elected the African Union Commission chair in close race.

Moussa Faki Mahmal beats Kenya’s CS Amina to win African Union Commission Chairman with 38 votes in 7th round.

The contenders were: Kenya’s Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed, Abdoulaye Bathily, a Senegalese diplomat and academic, Chad’s Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat, Botswana’s Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, and Mba Mokuy, a former political adviser from the ex-Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea.