Note to Correspondents—Secretary-General’s travels to the Horn of Africa
Notes to correspondents
The Secretary-General will be travelling to the Horn of Africa next week.
He will be joined on this visit by the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, as well as with officials from the Africa Union, the European Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the African Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank.
This is the third joint trip that the Secretary-General is undertaking with the World Bank and other regional organizations, following the ones to the Sahel and the Great Lakes region last year.
The delegation will first visit Ethiopia for meetings with the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister as well as with IGAD’s Foreign Minister and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and its Commissioners.
In Djibouti, the delegation will meet with President, the Prime Minister and the President of the National Assembly.
Members of the delegation will then travel to Kenya where they will meet with the President. While in Nairobi, the Secretary-General will also launch the Global media Campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation while he is in Nairobi.