The African Union (AU) summit finally came to a close in the early hours of Tuesday morning – the real work of the conference had been severely delayed by the machinations and manoeuvring in the race to chair the AU commission. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's home affairs minister, managed, at her second attempt, to defeat the incumbent, Jean Ping of Gabon, in a contest that threatened to cause a serious rift between western and southern Africa.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jul/18/african-union-dlamini-zuma-political-economic

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