[TVNZ.CO.NZ] African leaders have appointed Zim-bob-wean President Bob MuggsyMugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
as the new chairman of the 54-nation African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
90-year-old Mugabe, who has ruled his country since 1980, succeeds Mauritania's President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz.
The announcement was made during the African Union's two-day heads of state summit at the organization's headquarters in Æthiopia's capital.
"During my tenure as chair, I will deliberately provoke your thoughts to pay special attention to issues of infrastructure, value addition, agriculture and climate change," Mugabe told African leaders.