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Gambia's Jammeh pulls out of race for African Union Assembly presidency
Created 2012-01-26 16:45
By Laura Angela Bagnetto in Addis Ababa
Report - African Union summit
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Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has pulled out of the race for the
presidency of the African Union’s Assembly, Gambia’s foreign minister
told RFI on Thursday. This leaves Benin’s President Boni Yayi the
likely winner of the rotating one-year term.

“The president took the decision to withdraw his candidacy,” Mamadou
Tangara said after a closed-door meeting of foreign ministers from the
Economic Community for West African States (Ecowas).

The other main candidate for the regional bloc’s presidency is thought
to be Benin’s Yayi. The move is likely to pave the way for him to
replace current AU president Equatorial Guinea’s Theodoro Obiang.

Tangara told RFI that following Jammeh’s reelection in November for a
fourth term Yahya felt it better to concentrate on domestic politics.

“He wants to devote the first year of his election to satisfy and meet
the needs and aspirations of the Gambian people,” Tangara said,
speaking on the sidelines of the AU summit in Addis Ababa [1].

Tangara said Gambia had withdrawn in favour of Benin while Ecowas had
reached a consensus on Yayi’s candidacy.

The AU Assembly is the bloc’s most important decision-making body. It
is made up heads of state from all 54 members of the organisation.

This year’s summit also sees another leadership contest in the
chairmanship of the AU Commission. This pits incumbent chairman Jean
Ping against South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma.


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