The African Union Executive Council has re-elected Zambia’s Amb. Albert Mudenda Muchanga as new Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Industry and Mining.
He polled 44 votes from 53 member states that voted.
Mr. Muchanga was elected at the on-going 34th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government.
Mr. Muchanga is currently African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry.
He previously Zambia’ Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union.
He was also Zambia’s Ambassador to Brazil.
He also served as Permanent Secretary, and as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Mr. Muchanga has provided strategic leadership in facilitating negotiation, conclusion and ratification of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which entered into force on 30th May 2019 and whose operation phase was launched on 7th July, 2019.
In addition, Ambassador Muchanga has provided similar leadership on matters of trade, industrialisation, mining and customs cooperation.
He works with ease at technical, professional, management, leadership and political levels.
Had he been in zambia, Lungu meno me no would have retired him in the national interest
P.M. pass comments based on the feature article. Your incessant attacks on President Lungu is no throughput to winning 2021. It seems you have your brains slime and drool.i.n.g.
China funded AU is the worst entity for Africa.
Tonga are respected and do succeed in diaspora, not in Lusaka. Under PF that man can’t be nominated to parliament or permanent secretary.
Sign of the confidence they have in the pf government. Great stuff
@Nostradamus, that position one must be sponsored her/his country who is also member of AU, and this case must have been sponsored by Republic of Zambia