Nigeria's Amina Mohammed to be UN deputy

Nigeria's environment minister Amina Mohammed has been appointed as deputy secretary-general of the UN.

Incoming United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has appointed Nigeria's environment minister Amina Mohammed as his deputy secretary-general and Brazilian diplomat Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti as chef de cabinet, a UN spokesman says.

Before her appointment as environment minister a year ago, Mohammed was outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special adviser on post-2015 development planning - a role that culminated last year with the adoption by the General Assembly of sustainable development goals for the next 15 years.

Guterres succeeds Ban on January 1.


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