After the African Summit 2016

The 27th African Union summit wrapped up on Monday, in Kigali, Rwanda, and still had not elected their new chairperson for the union’s commission. So, the current chair Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was asked to stay on until January next year. None of the three candidates contesting the position received the necessary two-thirds majority vote required. Dominating the talks was the political crisis in South Sudan, the African e-passport for heads of state and the self-sufficiency of the African union to fund itself. To look back at the summit we are joining us on the line we have: Adv. Pansy Tlakula: Chairperson & Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa at the African Commission on Human Rights and People’s RightsProfessor: Tim Muruthi: Head; Justice and Reconciliation in Africa and Extraordinary Professor of African Studies at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Professor ShadrackGutto: Editor at the Institute for African Renaissance Studies, at UNISA