The Ezulwini Consensus became the common African position on the United Nations Security Council reform, which was adopted by all AU member States calling for the allocation of two seats in the ...

Ahead of the crucial vote, Kenya was at a bad place over the conflict in Eastern DR Congo, amid accusations that Nairobi ...

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 vowed ...

Djibouti’s Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has been elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) for a four-year term, following a rigorous voting process at the 38th Ordinary ...

President John Dramani Mahama is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU). The President, who arrived in ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Angola, one of sub-Saharan Africa’s oil powers, assumed for the first time the rotating presidency of ...

Addressing the media in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, shortly after he lost to Djibouti’s candidate Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, Odinga ...

Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape ...

ADDIS ABABA - After seven rounds of hectic voting by Heads of State and governments, Djibouti’s foreign affairs minister ...

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

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

Djibouti’s Mahmoud Youssouf leads with 25 votes against Raila Odinga’s 21; one vote spoiled, and two countries abstain.