How Kenya's Amina lost to Chad's Mahamat in race for AUC chair
Kenya's Foreign minister Amina Mohamed (right) during the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa on January 30, 2017. AFP PHOTO | ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER
A last-minute change of the agenda and the refusal by Uganda, Djibouti and Burundi to vote for Kenya were Monday evening blamed for the defeat of Kenya's Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed in the race to become chairperson of African Union Commission.
Details of the shock trouncing in Addis Ababa on Monday afternoon emerged as Kenyan diplomats came to terms with the loss after an extensive campaign of three months that cost the country about $3.5 million.
