On Sunday, the African Union voted, for the first time, woman to head the AU Commission. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's Home affairs minister, beat Gabon's Jean Ping, who lost his bid for a second term in office.
Dlamini-Zuma comes into office at a time when the African Union and, indeed several African countries and regional economic blocs, find themselves amidst difficult situations, which threaten to reverse the progress that had been made lately.
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