African leaders met in Benin on Saturday, to try to make progress in resolving the African Union leadership crisis, following deadlocked elections at a January summit.
With the 54-nation organisation increasingly adrift since splitting over whether to re-elect Gabon's Jean Ping as head of the AU Commission, or giving the post to South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the aim was to build consensus ahead of another vote expected in July.
Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's former foreign minister and Pres. Jacob Zuma's ex-wife, who was backed by the Southern Africa Development Community states, is running again in the July vote.
Ping has been the chairman of the AU Commission since 2008.
