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Election of AU new Chair postponed -Africa Business News Roundup

BY Soko Directory Team · July 18, 2016 09:07 am

Election of AU new Chair postponed

The African Union summit meeting in Kigali will be voting for a new AU commission on Monday to replace the outgoing AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

There are three candidates, two of them women, former Uganda vice president Specioza Wandira Kazibwe and Botswana Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson Moitoi, and Equatorial Guinea Foreign Minister Agapito Mba Mokuy.

However, due to no outright winner, the elections were adjourned. None of the candidates for AUC Chairperson has attained the required 2/3.

Morocco seeks to rejoin African Union after 32 years. In a message to the AU summit in Rwanda, the Moroccan King Mohammed VI said the time had come for his country to retake its place within its institutional family, reports the BBC.

EAC-EU trade deal signing called off

The comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) will not be signed today as earlier planned.

Reports cite Tanzania’s decision to halt signing, citing the “turmoil” that the EU is experiencing following Britain’s exit. The agreement was due to be signed at a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya today.

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African passport launched

On Sunday, the African Passport was launched. The outgoing Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr Dlamini-Zuma issued the first two copies to Chairperson of the AU and Chadian president, Idris Deby Itno and Rwandan president Paul Kagame.