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Dlamini-Zuma remains AU commission chair as elections deferred to 2017

Xinhua, July 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the current chair of the African Union Commission (AUC), is to retain her job as head of the regional bloc as elections to elect her successor failed to produce a result when the AU summit ended here Monday.

Chadian President Idriss Deby said none of the three candidates managed to win two-thirds of the votes from the 54 African heads of states and governments to be elected. Dlamini-Zuma will continue to lead the AUC until the next AU summit to be held in January 2017, he added.

He said the list of candidates would be opened for more hopefuls to join. The current three candidates were Botswana's foreign minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, her Equatorial Guinean counterpart Agapito Mba Mokuy, and Uganda's former vice president Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe. Endit