Amina Mohamed says she will focus on climate change if selected as WTO head

Kenya’s candidate to become the next head of the World Trade Organisation pledged on Thursday to integrate climate change issues into the WTO agenda if selected.

Kenya's Amina Mohamed prepares to address the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 22, 2017. [Reuters]

Amina Mohamed, who is the East African nation’s sports minister, progressed to the second round of selection to become the next director-general of the WTO, along with four other candidates, on Friday.