Chadian Foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat is elected the next African Union Commission chairperson in a close in which he scored 38 votes cast by African leaders in the 7th round in Addis Ababa. Five candidates were in the race to replace South African Dlamini-Zuma including Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed, Abdoulaye Bathily, a Senegalese diplomat and academic, Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat, Botswana's Foreign Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, and Mba Mokuy, a former political adviser from the ex-Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea.

The AU was supposed to pick a new leader in July last year but the election was postponed following three rounds of voting after candidates failed to garner the required number of votes. This included the Ugandan candidate former Vice President Dr Specioza Wandera Kazibwe. Uganda and other EAC countries had voiced their support for the Kenyan candidate Amina Mohamed who was being sold as the EAC candidate

Some of the functions of the chairperson include chairing all meetings and deliberations of the commission, undertaking measures aimed at promoting and popularizing the objectives of the AU, enhancing the performance of the commission and promoting cooperation with other organizations for the furtherance of the objectives of the union, acting as a depository for instruments of ratification, accession or adherence of all international agreements concluded under the auspices of the AU among others

Meanwhile Uganda has fronted Justice Solome Balungi Bossa as its candidate for the post of judge of the International Criminal Court whose elections will be held in December 2017.
Justice Bossa has been submitted to the AU Commission for an early consideration to allow her adequate time to campaign. Justice Bossa is competing with two other candidates from Lesotho and Benin.

Uganda is among the African Union countries questioning the manner in which the ICC handles its business and has been at the front of a campaign for African countries to stop recognizing the court

State minister in charge of foreign affairs Okello Oryem says that fronting justice Bbosa is among the strategies of influencing the manner in which the court operates.Uganda has also fronted Dr. Warren Naamara, currently the UNAIDS Resident Representative in Tanzania for the post of Commissioner in charge of Social Affairs at the African Union.