Vol 66 No 12 | 
            - UNITED NATIONS
	     Nigeria's Amina Mohamed  his deputy  would expect to become an interim leader  but that is far from certain...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 65 No 21 | 
            - AFRICAN UNION
	     Indeed  there are concerns among some officials in Nairobi that the February election could see a repeat of the 2017 AUC election when Kenya's candidate  Amina Mohamed  lost to Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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)...