Chadian President Idriss Deby was yesterday elected new
chairman of the African Union (AU).
Deby who took over the chairmanship of the AU from
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, will serve the position in 2016.
Mugabe announced Deby’s election in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, yesterday at the opening of the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly
of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU).
In his acceptance speech, Deby thanked his colleagues
from Central Africa for unanimously nominating him as a consensus candidate. He
said he accepted the task with pleasure, but described his new responsibility
as heavy and fraught with challenges.
He said, “You are giving Chad and its people a great
pleasure by appointing me as chairman of the African Union for 2016. I would
like to thank my colleagues of the central African region who proposed me for
this noble function, and all of you here who have endorsed their choice.”
Also elected were Benin Republic President Boni Yayi and
Paul Kagame of Rwanda as First Vice President and Second Vice President of the
African Union Bureau of the Drafting Committee.
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