Nigeria's Amina Mohammed named UN's Deputy Secretary-General

Incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Nigeria's Environment Minister Amina Mohammed to be the UN's deputy secretary-general.Senior Brazilian foreign ministry official, Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, will serve as Guterres' chief of staff while Kyung-wha Kang of South Korea was appointed



to the new position of special advisor on policy.

Guterres has made gender parity a priority of his tenure which begins from first of January.