{"id":402823,"date":"2021-02-07T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=402823"},"modified":"2021-02-07T11:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:43:38","slug":"african-union-keeps-commission-head-in-landslide-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/african-union-keeps-commission-head-in-landslide-win\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union keeps commission head in landslide win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ADDIS ABABA (SONNA):<\/strong>A seasoned Chadian diplomat, Moussa Faki Mahamat received a sweeping vote of confidence among African leaders Saturday to serve as chairman of the African Union Commission (AUC) for another four-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Moussa Faki received 51 of 54 African leaders&#8217; votes in favor of serving a second term in a virtual vote held amid the 34th biannual assembly of the pan-African body.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders are also set to elect commissioners of the AUC during their two-day summit, which is expected to focus on Africa&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, security issues and the implementation of a continental free-trade area.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, South Africa&#8217;s President Cyril Ramaphosa handed over the annual chairmanship of the Union to his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA (SONNA):A seasoned Chadian diplomat, Moussa Faki Mahamat received a sweeping vote of confidence among African leaders Saturday to serve as chairman of the African Union Commission (AUC) for another four-year term. Moussa Faki received 51 of 54 African leaders&#8217; votes in favor of serving a second term in a virtual vote held amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,7,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-news","9":"category-politics","10":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402824,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402823\/revisions\/402824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}