INTRODUCTION

The tenure of all fifteen members of the PSC (see Table 1 below) serving for a two-year and three-year term is set to end at the end of March 2022. All PSC members are elected by the AU Executive Council and endorsed by the Assembly during its ordinary sessions. It is to be recalled that the Assembly delegated its envisaged power to elect members to the Executive Council during its sixth Ordinary Session (Assembly/AU/Dec. 106(VI)). One of the agenda items tabled for the fortieth Ordinary Session of the Executive Council slatted to take place on 2-3 February 2022 is, therefore, the election of the fifteen new or returning members of the Council.