The talks were brokered by an African Union mediator Mohamed el Hacen Lebatt a veteran advisor to Moussa Faki Mahamat the former Chadian Foreign Minister who now chairs the AU Commission (AC Vol 43 No 4 High stakes at Sun City)...
Vol 60 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- SAHEL
Development in the Sahel will be a major theme of the G7 summit in Biarritz on 24-26 August to which Macron has invited Burkina's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as current chair of the G5 and other African presidents: Senegal's Macky Sall Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the current African Union chair Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat...
But on 1 May the AU Commission under its administrative Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat said it regretted that Sudan's junta had not handed over power to civilians within 15 days but would allow a final extension of the deadline by 60 days...
Adding to the pressure for a strong civilian role in the transition the African Union Commission under Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat announced late on 11 April that: 'The military takeover is not the appropriate response to the challenges and aspiration of the Sudanese people...
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Undeterred Sisi called the Chairman of the AU Commission the administrative head of the continental organisation Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat to persuade him to make an exception for the Sudanese junta...
Vol 60 No 5 |
- BURUNDI
- SOMALIA
Anti-AU demonstrations in the Burundian capital accuse AU Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat of supporting the domestic opposition and obeying his 'colonial masters'...
Vol 60 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
After a fallow period for the African Union's regional diplomacy the Chairperson of the AU Commission Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat has been working hard to restore its prestige and lead on African crises...
That brought a frustrated reaction from Moussa Faki Mahamat the chair of the African Union Commission...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and AU chair Moussa Faki Mahamat agreed on the appointment of Mauritanian Hassan Lebat former AU Representative in CAR and currently a special adviser to Moussa Faki as a mediator...
'The reality is clear that the EPAs were badly negotiated and apart from the SADC most of them have not been implemented ' says Lopes the former executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa who was appointed to lead the AU's post-Cotonou negotiations by Moussa Faki Mahamat at the Nouakchott summit...