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Chad's foreign minister wins vote to head African Union, says official

Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat addresses attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, October 1, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Chad's foreign minister Moussa Faki was elected as the chairman of the African Union commission on Monday, a Chadian official told Reuters on Monday at a summit of the 54-nation body. Faki's main rival in the last round of voting at the AU, which is based in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, was Kenyan foreign minister Amina Mohamed. Senegal had also fielded a candidate who was knocked out in an earlier round of voting. (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Catherine Evans)