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Algiers and Rabat battle for 2024 African Union presidency

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“African Union: the battle of the giants”

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African Union: the battle of the giants

The pan-African intergovernmental organisation headquartered in Addis Ababa has increasingly become a political arena where the continent's heavyweights South Africa, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria jostle for power. In order to impose their views and place representatives in key positions in the African Union and other international organisations, these nations compete for influence and build coalitions. On the sidelines of these strategic manoeuvres, a few smaller countries such as Rwanda are carving out a niche for themselves. [...]

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. [...]

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

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

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