Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed has lost her bid to become the new African Union Commission chair.
Ms. Mohamed lost her bid to Chad’s Moussa Mahamat.  Mahamat had won 39 votes in the sixth round when 15 nations abstained. The country took the seventh round alone, Mahamat garnering 38 votes.
The two competed against Senegalese Dr Abdoulaye Bathily and Botswana’s Pelonomi Moitoi.
Kenya had reached 51 out of 53 African Union member states to back.
Mahamat will now take over from South Africa’s Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma who has served for the last four years.
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