The AU has also been heavily criticised especially the Chairman Commission Chad's former foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat and its Special Envoy to Sudan Mohamed el Hacen Lebatt who uncritically endorsed the military and often ignored civilian groups...
Moussa Faki Mahamat the AU Commission chairman was asking the same question on the fringes of Mo Ibrahim's governance weekend on 28-30 April in Nairobi at which he and Sudan's ousted prime minister Abdalla Hamdok were star speakers...
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'Africa must play a bigger role in international relations a role that does justice to the continent and its growing population ' said Scholz at a joint news conference after meeting African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat in Addis Ababa...
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In the letter AUC chair Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed his gratitude for Odinga's acceptance to serve in the role which he 'during the transition period which has now come to a happy conclusion'...
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At the same time French and other western influence has waned because Moussa Faki Mahamat the chair of the African Union and a former Chadian foreign minister has left Ndjamena and burned his bridges...
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Vol 64 No 2 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
'Africa should be a big stage for international cooperation not an arena for major countries' competition' said Qin at a joint press conference with African Union Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat at the new headquarters of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Addis Ababa financed by China...
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African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat said in Brussels that the 'injustice' of past broken climate finance commitments 'must be righted'...
AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat is a former prime minister of Chad; and the regimes of Mahamat and his father have been close security allies of successive French governments (See Box 'Foreign' conspiracies blamed for unrest)...
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But after Sall and AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat met with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this month AU officials seem to have calculated that they could give the Ukrainian president the floor without jeopardising their stated neutrality...
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Yet three days later that joint position was thrown into confusion when following a meeting alongside AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat with President Putin in Sochi Sall urged 'partners' to remove sanctions on Russian wheat and fertilisers that he said the country was ready to export...
Sall who is also political head of the African Union this year will be accompanied Moussa Faki Mahamat who chairs the AU Commission in Addis Ababa...
