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Spotlight | African Union, Algeria, Morocco
Algiers and Rabat battle for 2024 African Union presidency

Algeria's president Abdelmadjid Tebboune (left) and King Mohammed VI of Morocco © Blondet Eliot/ABACA via Reuters Connect / Moroccan Royal Palace/AFP

A few weeks before the pan-African organisation's next conference, which marks the start of the Comoros presidency, rivalry is intensifying between the two north African heavyweights vying for the AU presidency in 2024. [...]

Published on 19/01/2023 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Spotlight | African Union, Algeria, Morocco
Algiers and Rabat battle for 2024 African Union presidency

Africa
North Africa torn over 2024 African Union chair

Africa, Ethiopia
AU seeks to placate Addis after audit finds Ethiopian officials not up to scratch

Africa
Azali Assoumani mediates as Algeria and Morocco battle for role as AU VP

Africa, Comoros islands
Allies eye opportunity as Assoumani takes African Union helm

Egypt
Cairo throws hat into ring to chair African Union in 2024

East Africa
AU firms up agenda for Addis summit

Algeria
Michele J. Sison's human rights agenda thwarted in Algiers

Africa, Comoros islands, Kenya
Comoros set to chair African Union as Nairobi makes way

Africa
Wiliam Ruto and Azali Assoumani play cat and mouse over AU 2023 chairmanship

Spotlight | Africa
Comorian president steps up campaign for AU chair

African Union
Comoros President Assoumani enters the ring to counter Kenya's 2023 AU presidency bid