Amb. Amina Ahmed Mohamed just selected as the new Kenyan Minister of Foreign affairs

[Daqane]

 

By Lillian Aluanga

 

She was once the tiniest and youngest pupil in class, but today stands tall among her peers.

 

While Ambassador Amina Mohamed is tall, in a literal sense, (over five foot ten) her appointment as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) also gives her a vertical boost in one of the world’s top international organisations.

 

 

Under her new posting, which she took up two weeks ago, Mohamed will also serve as an Assistant Secretary General at the UN, making her the senior-most Kenyan at the organisation.

 

The new posting has seen Mohamed leave her perch as Permanent Secretary at the Justice Ministry, as well as relinquish her seat as president of the Conference of State Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime. But these aren’t the only bodies she has headed in a career spanning 25 years.

 

In 2002, Mohamed made history as the first woman and first African to be elected chair to the Council of the International Organisation for Migration.

 

Three years later, she became Chairman of the General Council of the World Trade Organisation between 2005 and 2006. Not only was Mohamed the first woman to do so, but her performance quickly earned her a reputation at the organisation as one who ran things with "a steel fist inside a velvet glove".

 

More on her:

 

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000040774&story_title=From-tiny-schoolgirl-to-Unep-big-boss

[NGONGE]

Xaaji X will be very happy today. :D

[xiinfaniin]

Good for Amino to assume this top post.

 

For the excitable folks : Kenya is not Somalia

[Jacaylbaro]

Hambalyaanu leenahay inanta reer Somaliland

[NGONGE]

^^ Lakin kaalay, miyaanay aheen inu Siilaanyo gabadh o magacaabo wazeer al khaarijiyah? Ileen kii bidaarta laha dumarkan wu ku dixh lumi doona (and it'll make the guru happy to see the back of him).

[Jacaylbaro]

Ka bidaarta lihi has a little voice too ,,, wax fahan

[Carafaat]

She is Kenyan and will serve the interest of Kenya, just like all the other Somali-Kenyans and those on their paylist.. Nothing to get excited about.

[Tallaabo]

You are right Carafaat but was she not competing for the post of director of the World Trade Organisation? I heard she is one of our SSC sisters, good luck to her.

[The Zack]

She is kikuyu shoe licker, aint she? .

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Somalilanders doing it big in the horn well done congratulations Amina allow dhowr

[Tallaabo]

The Zack;941946 wrote:

She is kikuyu shoe licker, aint she?

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:D

[xiinfaniin]

^^No that tune will very soon change

 

You will hear tacit support from brothers in the North, and Xaaji Habaar will classify her as a ethnic Somalilander

[The Zack]

xiinfaniin;941952 wrote:

^^No that tune will very soon change

 

You will hear tacit support from brothers in the North, and Xaaji Habaar will classify her as a ethnic Somalilander

Ha ha looool he already started. Somali landers are doing fine kulahaa

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Ma wax ba i dhaafay i thought the Zack liked Kenya and hated Ethiopia mise wax ba is badalay war ma sheekadi jubbaland ba wax iska badaleen.

[Saalax]

I wouldn't classify her as a Somalilander as of yet, for all we know she could be an undercover die hard Khaatumo Seegist.