African Union's rotating chairperson and Benin President Boni Yayi (C), flanked by the new African Union Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (L) and outgoing African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping (R), addresses a news conference at the closing of the African Union (AU) leaders' meeting in Addis Ababa, July 16, 2012. Dlamini-Zuma was elected on Sunday to become the first female head of the African Union Commission, ending a bruising leadership battle that had threatened to divide the organisation. Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's home affairs minister and an ex-wife of President Jacob Zuma, defeated incumbent Ping of Gabon, who had been at the helm of the Commission, the AU's steering body, since 2008. Picture taken July 16, 2012. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS)