Djibouti's foreign minister elected to top African Union post
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FILE PHOTO: Djibouti's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders chose Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to chair the African Union commission on Saturday at a summit dominated by fears of the Congo war widening into a regional conflict, the country's finance minister said.
In a post on the X platform Djibouti's economy and finance minister, Ilyas Dawaleh, said Youssouf had "won" the election.
Youssouf has been foreign minister since 2005. He was previously Djibouti's ambassador to Egypt and has served as foreign minister in the governments of three presidents.
(This story has been refiled to remove the extraneous word 'post' in paragraph 2)
(Reporting by Dawit Endeshaw; Writing by Elias Biryabarema; editing by David Evans)
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