Accra, Mar 16, GNA-- Ghana has been elected to serve a two-year term on the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council.

This was at the first day of the Fourth Ordinary Session of the AU currently underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

According to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nine other member states were also elected to serve a two-year term on the Council.

They are: Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Libya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Senegal, Sudan and Togo.

Five other countries, Algeria, Gabon, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria were elected to serve on the Council for three years.