AU Confirms Will Hold Elections, Denies Split

The African Union summit meeting in Kigali will be voting for a new AU commission on Monday, despite rumors of a call for the election to be delayed.   There have been persistent rumors at the summit that the ECOWAS bloc of west African states is unhappy with the choice of candidates offered to succeed outgoing AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.   There are three candidates, two of them women, former Uganda vice president Specioza Wandira Kazibwe and Botswana...

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