24^th AU Summit Elects a New Bureau for the year 2015

Addis Ababa 31 January 2015 - The assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) meeting at their 24^th Ordinary Session at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, elected on 30th January 2015 a new bureau to pilot the activities of the Union for the year 2015.

The newly elected Chair of the African Union is HE. Robert Mugabe President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. He is taking over from HE. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz , President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania who has been chairing the Union for the past year 2014.

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  The other members elected for the AU bureau are as follows:

-       1^st Vice Chair                                    Democratic Republic of Congo

-       2^nd  Vice Chair                                  Republic of Niger 

-       3^rd Vice Chair                                    Republic of Kenya ; and the

-       Rapporteur                                        Islamic Republic of Mauritania