Morocco Appointed Bureau Chair

Morocco has been appointed to lead the Bureau of the 57th Session of the ECA's Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development.

This decision was made unanimously during the opening day of the Expert's Segment of the conference in Addis Ababa.

Zakaria El Harmiri, Head of the Multilateral African Affairs Division at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco, will occupy the post.

The first Vice Chair will be Cameroon, the second Benin and the third Kenya. The rapporteur will be Zimbabwe.

The outgoing chair, Zimbabwe's Andrew Bvumbe, expressed support for Morocco's leadership.