Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe assumed the post the rotating chairmanship of the African Union on Friday, replacing Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
Mugabe 90, shook hands with Abel Aziz in front of fellow leaders to applause at the AU summit in the Ethiopian capital.
The new chairman of the African Union, is the only leader Zimbabweans have known since independence from Britain in 1980 and is the continent’s oldest leader — and one of its most controversial post-colonial figures.
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