Former VP Joice Mujuru appointed AU head of Election Observer Mission

Mauritius: FORMER vice president Joice Mujuru has been appointed the new Head of the African Union Electoral Observation Mission (AUEOM) to the National Assembly Elections in Mauritius,Express Mail Zim can report.

Mujuru is former vice president of Zimbabwe who and was fired at the height of ZANU PF factional wars that rocked the party before the overthrow of late former President Robert Mugabe.

She was labelled the leader of a faction called Gamatox.

When she left the presidium she decided to adopt a low profile far from the madding crowd.

President Mnangagwa is the chairperson of Sadc hence Mujuru’s appointment to head the AU mission.

On November 9 2024, the Head of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) Honourable Mohammed Chande Othman, Former Chief Justice of the United Republic of Tanzania, accompanied by the SADC Executive Secretary His Excellency Elias M Magosi, hosted a meeting of Heads of International Observer Missions to the National Assembly Elections scheduled for November 10.

The Heads of the Observer Missions at the meeting included Mujuru, Head of the African Union Electoral Observation Mission (AUEOM) and Former Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe; Honourable Nicolae Popescu, Head of Mission of Francophonie Electoral Observer Mission (FEO) and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova; and Bishop Sipho Tembe, Head of the Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries (ECF-SADC) and Vice Chairperson of the Elections & Boundaries Commission of the Kingdom of Eswatini.

The Heads of the Observer Missions agreed to jointly release their separate preliminary statements on the conduct of the National Assembly Elections on 12 November, 2024 at the Caudan Art Gardens Centre in Port Louis.

Mujuru is still in Mauritius.