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: Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 2:30 AM IST In Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala WTO gets its first woman director general, write Aarshi Tirkey & Kripa Anand There have been WTO chiefs from Europe, Oceania, Asia, and South America but not one from Africa so far, despite the continent representing 27 per cent of the WTO’s membership, with 35 per cent members from developing countries. Dr Okonjo-Iweala’s appointment as the WTO chief comes at a time when the world is extremely divided in terms of colour, race, and ethnicity WTO Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala After South Korea’s candidate, Yoo Myung-hee, pulled out of the race on February 6, the path was paved for Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the next director general of the World Trade Organisation. She is the first woman and the first African in the organisation’s 25-year history to have accomplished this. In fact, the United Nations itself — since its inception in 1945 —

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