UN Secretary-General appoints Nigeria’s Eziakonwa as Special Adviser on Africa

United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres on Friday announced the assignment of Ahunna Eziakonwa of Nigeria arsenic Special Adviser connected Africa.  

She succeeds Cristina Duarte of the Republic of Cabo Verde, to whom the Secretary General is grateful for her committedness and dedicated work to the Organisation.  

Eziakonwa brings astir 3 decades of United Nations (UN) enactment to her caller role. 

In her existent relation arsenic UN Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), she oversees the organisation’s enactment to 46 African countries successful pursuing Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, arsenic good arsenic the African Union’s Agenda 2063. 

Since 2018, she has helped signifier UNDP’s strategical attack to economical and governmental improvement crossed the continent. 

Eziakonwa’s experience spans the afloat breadth of UN enactment successful Africa. 

She has served arsenic UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative successful 3 countries – Ethiopia, Uganda and Lesotho – wherever she coor...