Amina Mohamed Jibril

Of the 12 candidates from a long-list that included cabinet secretaries Amina Mohamed and Adan Mohamed it was Peter Mathuki who emerged...

Kenya's Amina Mohamed will again narrowly miss out on a top international job after Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nigeria's former finance minister and Yoo Myung-hee South Korea's trade chief were selected as the final two candidates in the race to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization (AC Vol 61 No 15 A favourite for an impossible job)...

Africa's two female candidates – Kenya's Amina Mohamed and Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – lead the field but Asian support is building for South Korea's Yoo Myung-hee officials say...

However Amina Mohamed Kenya's well-backed candidate to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization told Africa Confidential 'there's absolutely no contradiction' in being a member of AfCFTA and the EAC and also negotiating bilateral trade pacts...

Of all the candidates gunning for the helm of the World Trade Organisation Amina Mohamed probably ranks as the best prepared for the contest...

'Amina Mohamed is associated with recent successes at the WTO chairing a 2015 round that was a fair success...

That argument hasn't convinced Egypt's candidate Geneva-based lawyer Hamid Madouh nor Kenya's nominee and former Minister of Trade Amina Mohamed; she signed up on 7 July quashing speculation that she would stand aside...

Kenya is backing its Sports and Culture minister Amina Mohamed a skillful chair of the WTO ministerial meetings in Nairobi in 2015...

He is reportedly backing Kenya's Amina Mohamed a former foreign minister who was strongly tipped to chair the African Union but lost out to Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat (AC Vol 57 No 22 Amina jumps to the front)...

Amina Mohamed Kenya's Foreign Minister is widely seen as a front-runner for the chair but insiders say Dlamini-Zuma's record has dented her prospects (see Box Dlamini-Zuma's checkered legacy)...

Once charged by the ICC President Uhuru Kenyatta has not had a change of heart but is currently focusing on getting Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed elected as the AU's next chairperson in January and Kenya needs as many votes as it can get including those of ICC members...