Amina Mohammed Re-appointed UN Deputy Secretary-general

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Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed has been re-appointed as Deputy secretary-general of the United Nations.

António Guterres had on 18th June asked Mohammed to serve as Deputy secretary-general for a second term, shortly after the UN General Assembly re-appointed him for a second term.

Guterres’ second term starts on January 1, 2022, and will run for a period of five years. He succeeded Ban Ki-moon in January 2017 as the ninth secretary-general.

While speaking with journalists after taking the oath of office for a second term, he said that he has extended an offer to Mohammed to continue in office.

“After being elected, I have the pleasure to invite the Deputy secretary-general to remain in my second mandate and I hope she will accept,” he said.

Mohammed, who was standing behind Guterres at the press briefing, responded with the comment 'absolute honour'.

Mohammed is a diplomat and politician, who is serving as the fifth Deputy secretary-general of the United Nations.

She had also served as the special adviser to Ban Ki-moon on post-2015 development planning, which focused on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals.

Previously, she was Nigeria’s Minister of Environment from 2015 to 2016 and was a key player in the Post-2015 development agenda process.

Mohammed was born in Liverpool, the UK, to a Nigerian veterinarian-officer and a British nurse. She is the eldest of five daughters.

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