{"id":7508,"date":"2012-01-30T21:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/au-fails-to-elect-new-chief-safrica-suffers-blow\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:33","slug":"au-fails-to-elect-new-chief-safrica-suffers-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/au-fails-to-elect-new-chief-safrica-suffers-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"AU fails to elect new chief, SAfrica suffers blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ping fails to win outright majority<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa suffers diplomatic blow<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Aaron Maasho and Yara Bayoumy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The African Union<br \/>\nfailed to elect a new head on Monday, highlighting the weakness<br \/>\nof a group criticised for slow decision-making during political<br \/>\nturmoil on the continent last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma<br \/>\nwas up against incumbent commission chairman Jean Ping of Gabon,<br \/>\nwho failed to win an outright majority in four rounds of voting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The commission is the AU secretariat&#8217;s top organ and the<br \/>\nchair its public face.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smaller countries said Zuma&#8217;s candidacy broke an unwritten<br \/>\nrule that the continent&#8217;s dominant states do not contest the<br \/>\nleadership. &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s decision to do so turns everything<br \/>\nupside down,&#8221; a West African delegate said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could say they may have not voted for Ping but the<br \/>\nsmaller countries are sceptical of the big countries,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Analysts said Ping&#8217;s attempts to juggle the diverse views of<br \/>\nits 54 members had hampered decision-making on Libya after the<br \/>\noverthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Ping fails to win outright majority * South Africa suffers diplomatic blow By Aaron Maasho and Yara Bayoumy ADDIS ABABA, Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The African Union failed to elect a new head on Monday, highlighting the weakness of a group criticised for slow decision-making during political turmoil on the continent last year. Former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}