Mohamed El-Amine Souef

Mohamed El-Amine Souef (born July 28, 1962) is a Comorian diplomat and former foreign minister, ambassador to Egypt, and Permanent Representative to the Arab League (1995–1998). He has been appointed deputy Foreign Minister in charge of the Arab World by president Mohamed Taki Abdulkarim in 1998. He first became foreign minister in 1999, following the military coup of Azali Assoumani. He resigned briefly in January 2002, along with Azali Assoumani, to make way for a transitional government, but he was reappointed a few months later when Assoumani won elections and regained power. He lost his post again in July 2005 during a cabinet reshuffle. After the reshuffle, Mr. Souef was named Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Comoros to the United Nations in New York (April 2006). Previously, in government, He served as Parliamentarian, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, State Minister in charge of Cooperation, Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Representative to the Arab League States and, Adviser to the President of the Comoros. Mr. Souef had served UN DPKO after a long carrier within the Government of the Comoros.

Mr. Souef was appointed on September 1, 2022 as the Special Envoy of the African Union (AU) for Somalia and head the AU's Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), replacing the Mozambican diplomat Francisco Madeira, who had held the office since 2015. Mr. SOUEF is currently working at the African Union Commission as Chief of Staff since Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf who was elected Chairperson of the African Union Commission in February 2025 took his position in March 2025.

Mr. Souef, a veteran diplomat, had prior to his appointment at the African Union served as head of the MINUSMA Office in Gao/Mali ( 2015-2017) & (2020+2022) and held the same title in the UNAMID Khartoum liaison office (KLO) and UNAMID Office in south and North Darfur since 2011 to 2015.

Mr. Souef is a scholar and an author of five books on politics and geopolitics .

• Les Comores en mouvement (2008)
• Les grands défis de la politique étrangère des Comores (2009)
• Le Transport aérien aux Comores entre Souveraineté et Sécurité, Ed de lalune (2009)
• Discours et Images des Comores, Ed de lalune
• Réflexions sur géopolitique de l’Océan indien, Ed de laLune