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The Biden-Harris Administration is pleased to express its strong support for the candidacy of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director General of the WTO." [59] Okonjo-Iweala was unanimously appointed as the next Director-General on 15 February. [60] She began her career as Director General of the WTO on 1 March 2021. [61]
Uzodinma Iweala during a public reading at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 17, 2008. Uzodinma Iweala // ⓘ (born November 5, 1982) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. [1] His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African ...
Jackson opposes mask mandates to halt the spread of COVID-19. [67] He has said, "I think that wearing a mask is a personal choice, and I don't particularly want my government telling me that I have to wear a mask." [67] Jackson won the general election, taking 79.4% of the vote to Democratic nominee Gus Trujillo's 18.5%.
Okonjo-Iweala, 70, is the sole candidate for the job and told Reuters she wants to complete "unfinished business" from her first term which includes new rules on cutting fishing subsidies and ...
"One thing is clear across the board: Unfortunately, Black women are more likely to die of endometrial cancer," Dr. Onyinye D. Balogun, radiation oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn ...
A Texas judge Thursday ordered a New York OB-GYN to stop sending abortion pills to the Lone Star state and pay a $100,000 fine for sending the medications to a Texas woman, setting up a legal ...
On February 5, 2021, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria secured the support of the United States for Director-General of the WTO. [4] Okonjo-Iweala assumed office on 1 March 2021, and became both the first woman and the first African to hold this position.
According to writer and food scholar Dr. Scott Alves Barton, “Yams are considered to be the most common African staple aboard Middle Passage ships; some estimates say 100,000 yams fed 500 ...