{"id":191698,"date":"2025-02-18T05:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djiboutis-mahmoud-ali-youssouf-elected-african-union-commission-chairperson-amid-growing-continental-challenges\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T05:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:56:43","slug":"djiboutis-mahmoud-ali-youssouf-elected-african-union-commission-chairperson-amid-growing-continental-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djiboutis-mahmoud-ali-youssouf-elected-african-union-commission-chairperson-amid-growing-continental-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti&#8217;s Mahmoud Ali Youssouf Elected African Union Commission Chairperson Amid Growing Continental Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Addis Ababa, Ethiopia \u2014 Djibouti&#8217;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 Summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Youssouf, 59, replaces Chad&#8217;s Moussa Faki, who has led the Commission since 2017. Algeria&#8217;s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the AU, Selma Malika Haddadi, was also elected as Deputy Chairperson, succeeding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502170757.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, Ethiopia \u2014 Djibouti&#8217;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 Summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa. Youssouf, 59, replaces Chad&#8217;s Moussa Faki, who has led the Commission since 2017. Algeria&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,4380,19480,6476,6977,6274,9133,568,7235,10012,10778,12725,257,254,6156,50514],"class_list":["post-191698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-ali","tag-chairperson","tag-challenges","tag-commission","tag-continental","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-growing","tag-mahmoud","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union","tag-youssouf"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}