New UNICEF Representative accredited

Suleiman Braimoh is the new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to Guyana. He presented his letter of credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett last week at the Ministry’s Takuba Lodge office.

According to a Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) press release, Braimoh, who is Nigerian, succeeds Johannes Wedenig who completed his tenure in July. Braimoh was formerly the Regional Chief of Programmes and Planning in UNICEF’s Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA). 

He has served as Head of Strategic Human Resource Planning at UNICEF, New York; Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF and State
representative/Programme Monitoring Advisor at United Nations Development Pro-gramme (UNDP), Nigeria; and Programme Manager/ Training Manager, GINA said.