Ethiopia’s former health and foreign minister has been elected as the new director general of World Health Organisation (WHO) at an election held on Tuesday afternoon in Geneva. Tedros defeated Dr David Nabarrag of Britain [ More … ]
Yahya Al-Sinwar was chosen to be the head of Hamas Political Bureau in Gaza while Dr. Khalil Al- Hayya was elected as his deputy. Informed sources revealed that “the internal elections of Hamas in Gaza have [ More … ]
Somalia’s Parliament elected former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a dual US-Somali citizen, as the country’s new president Wednesday. Farmajo was declared victorious after incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dropped out of the contest following [ More … ]
The UN Women Executive Board has elected Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the UAE’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, to the Presidency of the UN-Women Executive Board for 2017. The UAE’s Permanent [ More … ]
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