> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:09:22 -0600
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> Subject: [G_L] Fwd: Gambia's Jammeh pulls out of race for African Union Assembly presidency
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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 Tangara said Gambia had withdrawn in favour of Benin while Ecowas had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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> -Laye
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