A senior Botswana official, Taufila Nyamadzabo, has been appointed executive director of the World Bank office for the Africa Group 1 Constituency, APA learnt here on Friday.
According to a government statement, the former secretary for economic and financial policy in Botswana’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development would serve as the head of the secretariat for 22 English-speaking African member countries of the World Bank Group and would be based in Washington DC, United States.
The appointment is effective from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2022.
Nyamadzabo has served as the Alternate Executive Director for Africa Group I since November 2018.
Africa Group 1 comprises Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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