Recently when I read that Kenya was lobbying for its extremely capable
and first woman foreign minister Ameenah Mohammad to fill the UN
Secretary General post after Ban Ki-moon exits at the end of 2016, I
immediately thought of Angela Merkel and her distinguished leadership of
the recent Syrian refugee crisis. I thought how apt it would be to see a
woman leading the UN for the first time on its 70th anniversary and a
woman succeeding Barack Obama as US President. It would be a different
world indeed.
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