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Ana Gomes is coordinator and spokesperson of the foreign affairs committee for her political group, the Social-Democrat. With 200 members the Social-Democrat is the second largest group within the European Parliament. For Ethiopia and Ethiopians though Ana Gomes is best remembered for her role as the leader of the EU election observers’ team during the 2005 crisis-induced general election in Ethiopia. She has had a troubled relationship with Ethiopia’s late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who she still calls “a dictator,” after she published her report in which wrote the election was massively rigged. Read more →

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• Companies and organisations: African Union
• People: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

JEUNE Afrique, Francophone Africa’s current affairs news magazine, said this week that on no account should Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma get a second term as chairwoman of the African Union (AU) Commission. Read more →