The Sahel-Gulf of Guinea arrangement coincides with fresh diplomatic outreach to the AES regimes with the chair of the African Union (AU) Commission Djibouti's former foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf pressing the case for dialogue during visits to Bamako and Ouagadougou from 12-16 July...

African Union Commission Chairman Mahmoud Ali Youssouf is to attend as will the President of Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Omar Alieu Touray...

Case in point say critics was the decision by leaders to elect Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as Chair of the AU Commission in February 2025 over Raila Odinga...

Djibouti's then Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf – now African Union Commission chair – said it was meant to affirm that ‘landlocked countries should have free predictable and unhindered access' under international law...

' African Union Commission Chairman and former foreign minister of Djibouti Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and other leaders complained about rich countries failing to make progress on the climate finance goal agreed at the UN COP29 summit in Baku last year towards $300bn a year by 2035...

The new AU Commission Chair Mahmoud Ali Youssouf former foreign minister of Djibouti has welcomed Idriss's appointment and looks keen to wave through Sudan's readmission but insiders say that with the AU Political Affairs Peace and Security Commission headed by top Nigerian diplomat Bankole Adeoye it is unlikely that Youssouf will be able to push it through...

Its former Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf now Chair of the African Union Commission struggles to push the AU into action on regional crises...