The race for the position of the next AU chairman has just gotten hotter as more candidates have emerged. The elections were postponed till January 2017, last month, at the AU summit in Rwanda, after candidates who contested at the time failed to garner the required number of votes to win. United Nations (UN) Secretary General’s special representative to Central Africa, Prof. Abdoulaye Bathily from Senegal is another one of the candidates reportedly intending to run in January. African Union leaders were reportedly not convinced by the qualifications of the candidates in July, and therefore refused to vote. Doubts about July’s AU chairmanship candidates in Rwanda have seemingly been erased now.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 12, 2016 17:03 UTC