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UN Secretary-General Appoints Vera Songwe ECA Executive Secretary

United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, has appointed Vera Songwe as ECA's Executive Secretary. The Cameroonian economist and banking executive is the first woman to ever serve in this role. Read more. More about ECA in this BRIEFING

UN Secretary-General appoints Ms. Vera Songwe from Cameroon as Economic Commission of Africa's Executive Secretary. She is the first woman to ever serve in this role.

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