UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appointed Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as his top envoy to the African Union (AU).
Tetteh succeeds Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia as the secretary-general's special representative to the AU and head of the UN office there. Zewde left the job after she was elected the first female president of Ethiopia in October 2018.
Tetteh has decades of experience at the national, regional and international levels, including skills in building consensus among stakeholders, said Guterres' press office.
Currently the head of the UN Office at Nairobi, Tetteh served previously as Ghana's foreign minister and a member of the National Security Council and the Armed Forces Council. Before that she was trade and industry minister.
From 2014 to 2015 she was the chairperson of the Council of Ministers as well as chairperson of the Mediation & Security Council of the Economic Community of West African States.
She was co-facilitator in the high-level forum for the revitalization of the agreement for the resolution of the conflict in South Sudan in 2017-2018.
