Djibouti’s long-serving Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected on February 15 as head of the African Union Commission, securing the backing of regional leaders in Addis Ababa. Youssouf ...

The African Union chose its new leadership, and now faces several peace and security challenges which the International Crisis Group (ICG) described as "forbidding". This is an extract of ICG's ...

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

Scores of dignitaries and heads of state from across the continent have gathered at the AU headquarters in Ethiopia for the ...