Sudan Denied Leadership of A.U.
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The African Union rebuffed Sudan’s bid to assume the 53-nation group’s chairmanship for a second year running over concern about its role in violence in Darfur and named Ghana’s President Kufuor instead.
“By consensus vote, President Kufuor of Ghana has been elected to the presidency of the African Union,” A.U. Commissioner Alpha Oumar Konare said yesterday in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
The African Union also denied Sudan’s President al-Bashir the post last year because of rights abuses by the military in Sudan’s Darfur region.
