What is the probability of her bagging this seat?
Resident experts please tell us why some of you hate her with passion
She will get ir
Who else is on the ballot ?
Amefanyia nini wale talkers wanafanya zile inchi zakina Abdul,amefanyia nini wale wase wa IT walidandiwa Ethiopia,Migingo,cousin yangu kudeportiwa kutoka Trump country,Pro chupilee,Kenyans attacked during SA jobless crap,Magufuli frustrating Kenyan businessmen,simpendi na ako na bahati sina kura AU.
7 Likes
AMINA MOHAMED -KENYA’S FOREIGN MINISTER:
Widely seen as a front-runner for the job, Amina has the backing of almost all Anglophone countries.
Amina, who was UNEP’s deputy executive director before she took her current post, is well-known as one of the most vocal critics of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Since her appointment as Kenya’s top diplomat in 2013, Amina has continually criticized the Hague-based court on how it handles African cases, especially those involving sitting heads of state.
Her anti-ICC stance has won her many supporters. She successfully campaigned to get the ICC to drop its cases against Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy, William Ruto.
Amina, 55, also served in the World Trade Organization and is seen by many as the candidate to obtain for Africa better trade agreements with the rest of the world.
ABDOULAYE BATHILY:) -SENEGALESE DIPLOMAT:
Bathily is seen by many analysts as a strong candidate for the AU chair seat. He served as a UN mediator in the Central African Republic and Burundi. Bathily has strong support from Morocco, which could complicate his bid.
Morocco, the only country in the continent that is not part of the AU, withdrew from the union in 1984 to protest against the admission of disputed Western Sahara territories.
Ghana would also prefer to see someone else other than Bathily as AU chair. Accra is campaigning for its former Deputy Foreign Minister Thomas Kwesi Quartey to get the deputy chair position. Quartey cannot obtain the position if Bathily becomes the chair because AU protocol forbids two candidates from the same region from holding the two most senior posts of the organisation at the same time.
Another headache for Bathily’s bid is that Nigeria - the West African powerhouse and the continent’s biggest economy and most populous country - is seeking the position of Peace and Security Commissioner, which Abuja will not get due to protocol if Bathily gets the AU chair post.
Algeria, Morocco’s foe, would also rather have anyone at the AU’s top table rather than Rabat’s man. But Senegal can still count on the support of many fellow Francophone countries.
MOUSSA FAKI MAHAMAT -CHADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER:
Mahamat is another candidate showing a strong possibility of snatching the seat from the favourites, Amina and Bathily. The 56-year-old and father-of-five is not new to the workings of the AU after previously serving as the body’s chair of the AU’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council.
Before taking up his current post, Mahamat was his country’s prime minister. His boss, Chadian President Idriss Deby, who has ruled the country since coming to power in 1990, is the current chairperson of the AU.
As the AU chair, Deby, who is not on the good books of rights groups for alleged repression of critics, wields great power within the organisation.
The candidacy of two Francophones - Chadian and Senegalese - for the top seats will also not help Faki or Bathily as it could potentially lead to a split in Francophone countries’ votes.
PELONOMI VENSON MOITOI -A VETERAN POLITICIAN FROM BOTSWANA
A veteran politician from Botswana and a close ally of President Seretse Khama, Venson-Moitoi is also in the running to be the AU’s chairperson, although it is predicted she has only a small chance of winning the seat.
Venson-Moitoi, 65, is the current foreign minister of the diamond-producing southern African country.
The former journalist-turned-politician has served in her country’s cabinet since 2001.
AGAPITO MBA MOKUY -FORMER SENIOR ADVISER TO EQUATORIAL GUINEA’S PRESIDENT
Mokuy’s chance of becoming the chairperson is believed to be even slimmer than Venson-Moitoi’s.
Before landing his current post, Mokuy, 51, served as a senior adviser to President Teodoro Obiang.
Mokuy’s boss, President Obiang, has ruled the former Spanish colony for the past 37 years and is the continent’s longest-ruling leader.
3 Likes
What is the purported benefit to the country when she gets the seat?
More Creed
2 Likes
Kwanza anegotitae release ya wale kenyans wako jail in s.sudan.otherwise the rest in kelele.
1 Like
sincerely sijui vile angefanya your cousin asi deportiwe (pole sana) neither sijui kama ana powers to dictate how other countries should carry their business but am sure amejaribu within the legal framework/diplomatically, kwa kuwa pro jubile anafaa kuambiwa afanye conversely to her boss
Tunataka pia a-protest hii tabia ya Sudanese ya kubebesha watu chieth na mfuko.
12 Likes
I am also dying to know…
1 Like
@introvert umetajwa pahali:confused:
1 Like
Amina is a shining example of a careerist; always onto the next better job with nothing to show for the last. She always seemed to be everywhere as Foreign Minister but no solid accomplishments, just had meetings brought to Nairobi, which is a UN headquarter BTW, the accomplishment of a 70s era Foreign Minister. All show but no beef here.
2 Likes
Hehehe…
Oti is following closely.
1 Like
A more serious question. Also interested to know.
We know your kind. You come from a loooooooooooooooooooong line of complainers, whiners and whingers.
It is in your DNA. You can’t help it.
7 Likes
How will you gain if she loses? Muchamaa unakuaga na ujinga ingine apan eleweka.
Bruh, tell us how she has failed in her duties as a cabinet secretary.
1 Like
Kwao ni Kakamega? Am surprised
Those who are complaining she has done nothing as a CS should be praying ashinde because she wont be a CS anymore…idieeeets!!!