Stars align for Raila in AUC chair job hunt
According to Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, the continental bloc will no longer demand that the next AUC chair be a woman. A dispatch from Mudavadi’s office said the council “unanimously” asserted the right of the Eastern Africa region to produce the next chairperson of the African Union Commission. Since 2021, the African Union agreed that the deputy chair of the AUC be of the opposite gender. “It is now clear that the Rt-Hon Raila Odinga will be in the race for the AU Commission Chairperson,” Mr Mudavadi said. Eastern Africa has 14 member states, often transcending their traditional regional blocs.
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