http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-31/zimbabwe-robert-mugabe-becomes-african-union-chairman/6059228Robert Mugabe, the only leader Zimbabwe has known for the thirty years since the Lancaster House Agreement, has been named the chairman of the African Union. Mugabe, 90 is the most controversial Chairman since Muammar Gadaffi held the post from 2009 to 2010, mainly owing to genocide in the early 1980's, blatant thievery of elections in 2002 and 2008, attacking opposition loyalists in 2008, and violently seizing property from Zimbabwe's white minority. While Western officials will have no choice but to conduct business with the African Union, the tenor almost certainly will change from the last few chairpeople (Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Hailemariam Desalegn and Yayi Boni)
