The African Union needs a major overhaul to meet the largest challenges on the continent while the United States moved away from Africa under the chairmanship of Donald Trump, analysts said in Semaor, while the regional organization is preparing to elect new leaders.
The AU will eliminate a new president of his commission to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat, former Prime Minister of the Chad, at a summit on February 15 and 16 in Addis Ababa. Former Prime Minister Kenyan Raila Odanga, former Prime Minister Kenyan, Richard Randriamatto, and the former Djiboutian Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the former. A vice-president and six commissioners will also be elected this week.
The block of 55 Member States has struggled to play an important role in economic shocks and the security problems that the continent has faced in recent years. But in 2023, he received a greater trial with entry into the G20.
Now, the dismantling of the main Washington foreign aid organizationThe American Agency for International Development, presents another potential opportunity for the AU to intensify its regional role on everything, from health care to agriculture and trade. USAID’s financing cuts already plunge the groups that depend on it in crisis mode.
Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, president of the reflection group on the economic transformation of the African Center in Ghana, said that the new leaders of the AU Commission will have to “develop a strong position in the G20, especially since the States -Unis leave a vacuum of leadership ”.
She said that the AU should “look at its stronger negotiation power on the world scene” which, in parallel with its place in the G20, meant relying on African countries with seats in the UN, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to obtain the continent “financial of the continent and political systems in order. But, like the other analysts who spoke to Semaor, she stressed that the new leaders also had to implement “opportune reforms” to make the organization “adapted to use”.
