AU Chairperson

The Chairperson of the African Union is selected by the Assembly following consultations by Member States. The office of the Chair of the African Union is held for a period for one year by a Head of State or Government

The current Chairperson of the African Union is His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh AI- Ghazouani, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Chairs of Assembly of the African Union

• Feb 2023 to Feb 2024 - Azali Assoumani, The Union of Comoros
• Feb 2022 to Feb 2023 - Macky Sall, Republic of Senegal
• Feb 2021 to Feb 2022 - Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Feb 2020 to Feb 2021 - Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
• Feb 2019 to Feb 2020 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt
• Jan 2018 to Feb 2019 - Paul Kagame, Rwanda
• Jan 2017 to Jan 2018 - Alpha Conde, Guinea
• Jan 2016 to Jan 2017 - Idriss Déby, Chad
• Jan 2015 to Jan 2016 - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
• Jan 2014 to Jan 2015 - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritania
• Jan 2013 to Jan 2014 - Hailemariam Dessalegn, Ethiopia
• Jan 2012 to Jan 2013 - Thomas Yayi Boni, Benin
• Jan 2011 to Jan 2012 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea
• Jan 2010 to Jan 2011 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi
• Feb 2009 to Jan 2010 - Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
• Jan 2008 to Jan 2009 - Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, UR of Tanzania
• Jan 2007 to Jan 2008 - John Kufuor, Ghana
• Jan 2006 to Jan 2007 - Dénis Sassou N’Guesso, Congo
• July 2004 to Dec 2005 - Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria
• July 2003 to July 2004 - Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Mozambique
• July 2002 to July 2003 - Thabo Mbeki, South Africa