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Ethiopia: Prime Minister HMD to take over as AU chair - report
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Ethiopia: Prime Minister HMD to take over as AU chair - report
Ethiopia says to take over as AU chair
Source: AFP
Addis Ababa - Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn is slated to take over as the chairperson of the African Union this month, replacing Benin president Boni Yayi as the head of the pan-African bloc, officials said on Wednesday.
"Ethiopia is going to pick up the chairmanship of the African Union," Ethiopian Foreign Affairs spokesman Dina Mufti told AFP.
Hailemariam must be officially voted in by member states at the opening of this month's African Union heads of state summit, which runs from 27 January to 28 January.
A new chairperson is elected every January at the annual summit and is awarded on a regional basis.
Before current chairperson Boni Yayi took on the role, the chairmanship has been successively occupied by northern, southern and central Africa.
The last time East Africa chaired the AU was in 2008 when Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete served as head of the bloc.
Dina said the appointment is especially important for Ethiopia, which hosts the headquarters of the AU and is a founding member nation of the AU's predecessor, the Organisation for African Unity (OAU).
Strengthening of the organisation
"Taking over chairmanship of the African Union will give an opportunity for Ethiopia to work hard for the strengthening of the organisation," he said.
It is the first time the country has occupied the seat since the founding of the AU in 2003, though previous Ethiopian leaders, including late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, served as chair of the OAU.
Hailemariam - Ethiopia's former foreign minister - took over as Prime Minister in August following the sudden death of Zenawi, who ruled the country for 21 years.
The AU summit kicks off this month at the towering Chinese-built AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital. It is the first summit since the election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as chairperson of the AU Commission - the body's executive arm - last July.
The war against al-Qaeda-linked fighters occupying northern Mali is expected to top the agenda but crises between rivals Sudan and South Sudan and in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo will also be discussed.
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Not yet.
at least wait until he got the positon before you congradulate him.
Ayyee ye Cadre neger...
How about congradulating him for winning the future election in 2015?
I assume this DHM appears a good guy. I guess that he is getting arrangement of position for when he will be replaced from his PM level. That might be a reason he has been visiting many countries to get vote?
Then what he did since he was elected for the country? How many innocent people get free from prisoners? I personally don't blame him much because he is getting guidance from his vice PM and others, and then he had been acting wisely and flexibly.
Carry on the policies of his late master - keep away from the running the country & addressing the grievances of the people.
Woyanes, once again, couldn't be luckier to have him at the top to palacate the assertions that they control the gov't.
Deromaneqya
rule of law
eski endezaw errrrrr belu. endih stgayu mayet endet des yilal meselachihu. abet destaaaa. ekekamoch.
Ethiopia lezelalem tnur
melkam edil le HMD
I hope he will not appoint 3 deputy chairpersons.
A leader such as you is too much for rotten brains living for survival in the west, feed by social system and paid together with the disabled that can not join the work force of their respective country.
You keep marching while toothless wanna be oppositions bark. This comment does not include those genuine opposition affiliates, but those minorities that can not go with reality on the ground are whom I am referring to.
Ethiopia Rise!
Peace and love to Ethiopian people!!!!!
ME TOO I LOVE IT WHEN THE OPPOSITION ERRER SILU. I LOVE SEEING THEM CRY DAY AND NIGHT AND GET OLD AND LOOK SICK, THAT MAKES ME THE HAPPIEST PERSON. OPPOSITION ERRRRER BELU ESAY. TAMGNE BEZU ERRRER KEMALETU HIS WHOLE HAIR IS WHITE NOW. BIRR AHUM AMTU IS FAT, THE RESET ARE COUNTING HE DAY THEY WILL DIE. I LOVE IT WHEN THE OPPOSITION ARE UPSET EVERYDAY AS ONLY GOOD NEWS ARE COMING. SO THEY HAVE TO MAKE UP BAD NEWS TO MAKE THEMSELVES FEEL HAPPY. THEY KNOW THEY HAVE LOST THE GAME LONG TIME AGO. BUT THEY ARE TO STUBBORN TO ADMIT DEFEAT. OPPOSITION THE GAME IS OVER, YOU LOST. 23 YEARS OF CRYING IS SHAME FESAM OLD FARTS. IMAGINE IF THEY STARTED CRYING IN THEIR 40'S THAT MEANS THEY ARE IN THEIR LATE 60'S NOW WHICH MEANS DEATH IS ONLY 2-5 YEARS AWAY. OLF FART OPPOSITION YOUR TIME IS NEARLY OVER.... GOOD BUY AND HAVE A FUN IN HELL.
Either you like it or not he's the chair now. What can you do nothing. Keep barking wu wu wu. We are heading to the right direction. The same time you are heading the wrong direction. Wu wu wu bark again and again.
We understand you can't compute with us financially or academically so what you have to do blame the other for your failrety. Wu wu wu.
We are working hard, no longer Amhara will get the power. At least for 350 years.
YOU HAVE WASTED 100 YEARS
Hahahaha
and african role ethiopia holdes
this is a great achivement
All those put trash on this website are not mostly not Ethiopians but they
are frustrated and desbrated Eritreans.
Why you so called Eritrean Hamasins, you did not care of your own affairs.
Why you are looking Ethiopia back?
you left Ethiopia with your own consent. We will never accept you as part of us. OK.
we don't need you at all. We can do
business with our brotherly African
countries who has ports, who also,
know their own interests. such as
D'Jabuti, Kenya and even Somalia.
Take your cry to your masters Arabs,
who told you at first place to cut
off Ethiopia. in order to make you
their beggers and slaves.
Now, you are insulting our prim minister. He is not your leader. He is our leader. talk about your crazy
dog Issias Afwerk and his madness that he isolated you from all world.
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