{"id":9349,"date":"2012-03-27T03:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/african-union-endorses-okonjo-iweala-for-world-bank\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T03:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:32:35","slug":"african-union-endorses-okonjo-iweala-for-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/african-union-endorses-okonjo-iweala-for-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union endorses Okonjo-Iweala for World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; African Union finance leaders on Monday<br \/>\nunanimously endorsed Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi<br \/>\nOkonjo-Iweala&#8217;s candidacy to lead the World Bank and urged an<br \/>\nopen merit-based process to select the next head of the global<br \/>\nfinancial institution.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Okonjo-Iweala&#8217;s impeccable credentials, including depth<br \/>\nand breadth of knowledge, rich and varied experience, make her<br \/>\neminently qualified and the best candidate for the post of World<br \/>\nBank president,&#8221; the Africa Union said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The endorsement came following a meeting in Addis Ababa of<br \/>\nfinance, planning and development ministers from across Africa<br \/>\nled by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Lesley Wroughton; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 26 (Reuters) &#8211; African Union finance leaders on Monday unanimously endorsed Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala&#8217;s candidacy to lead the World Bank and urged an open merit-based process to select the next head of the global financial institution. &#8220;Dr. Okonjo-Iweala&#8217;s impeccable credentials, including depth and breadth of knowledge, rich and varied experience, make her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}