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First female president – Ethiopia
October 28 , 2018
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- Ethiopia’s parliament approved appointment of senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country’s first female president.
- She replaced Mulatu Teshome Wirtu.
- Presently, she is the U.N. under-secretary general and special representative of the secretary general to the African Union.
- The Ethiopian cabinet also appointed 10 female ministers, making Ethiopia the 3rd country in Africa, after Rwanda and Seychelles, to achieve gender parity in their cabinets.
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