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The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and about Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up

In this week’s news, Ethiopia’s for­mer health min­is­ter seek­ing to be next WHO chief, and African chefs want you to savor an African dish.

African Chefs Using The Web to Pro­mote Their Dishes 

For those who trav­el around the world, it may be hard to find an African dish list­ed on the menu of your favorite restau­rants. Even while it’s deli­cious, the dish­es may not be famil­iar to peo­ple from oth­er cultures.

“African cuisines, how­ev­er, have been slow to catch on glob­al­ly,” writes CNN’s Phoebe Parke.

This pic­ture is about to change as chefs from the con­ti­nent are tak­ing to the inter­net to pro­mote their dish­es through blogs, e‑books and pop up restaurants.

Parke lists an array of dish­es from dif­fer­ent coun­tries, includ­ing Ugan­da, Kenya, Zim­bab­we and Ghana, that are “final­ly tak­ing off.” The writer also gives us the com­po­si­tion of the dish­es and what is takes to put them together.

She says these are the “dish­es you should be eating.”

Ethiopia’s For­eign Min­is­ter among Can­di­dates Vying to Lead the WHO 

Ethiopia’s for­eign min­is­ter and for­mer min­is­ter of health, Tedros Adhanom, has tout­ed his expe­ri­ence as a rea­son to be elect­ed next World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) Chief.

The 194 mem­ber Unit­ed Nations agency, estab­lished after the Sec­ond World War is set to elect its next leader in 2017 dur­ing the orga­ni­za­tion’ s World Health Assembly.

There are three can­di­dates vying for the posi­tion, accord­ing to Politi­co. But “It may espe­cial­ly help if you are African.”

“Still reel­ing from the Ebo­la epi­dem­ic that killed some 11,000 peo­ple, Africa car­ries the high­est bur­den of dis­ease, yet it has nev­er had one of its own lead­ing the U.N. body to under­stand its prob­lems from the ground, the argu­ment goes.”

The can­di­date from Ethiopia holds a Ph.D. in Com­mu­ni­ty Health, and a Mas­ters in Immunology.

Report­ing on the sub­ject, the VOA’s Lisa Schlein writes:

“Africa’s sole can­di­date for direc­tor-gen­er­al has an impres­sive resume.  He is an inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized malar­ia researcher and, pri­or to being appoint­ed as Ethiopia’s for­eign affairs min­is­ter in 2012, Tedros was min­is­ter of health from 2005 to 2012.”

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