The African Union (AU) has deployed election observers in Central African Republic (CAR) and Niger, for the general elections scheduled to take place on Dec. 27, 2020 in the two AU member states.

The 55-member pan-African bloc in a statement said Chairperson of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has made the decision to deploy the AU electoral observation missions in the two countries.

The missions deployed from Dec. 21 to Dec. 31 are made up of electoral observers and experts as well as officials of the AU Commission.

Veronic Njie reports.