KABUL (SW) – Dr. Mohamed Ag Ayoya, of Mali, has assumed his responsibilities as UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, confirmed an official statement.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Ayoya served as UNICEF Representative in Somalia, in South Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Guinea. He brings with him more than 20 years of professional experience in development cooperation at the international level, most of which served in developing and fragile countries in four regions, West and Central Africa, South Asia, Latin America and Caribbean and Eastern and Southern Africa, said UNICEF.
Dr. Ayoya played a critical role in leading UNICEF’s response to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea; in child survival and development programmes in Haiti India, Sierra Leone, Mali, Niger, Chad, Mauritania; in developing child survival strategies and capacity-building interventions using the human rights approach in West and Central Africa region and in managing complex and protracted emergencies, including COVID-19, in South Sudan and Somalia, it added.
He holds a medical degree from the School of Medicine of Mali and a PhD in Nutrition from Cornell University in the United States of America. He has Certificates in Health Policy and Financing from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Social norms from Pennsylvania University, USA; and Leadership from The United Nations System Staff College, Italy.
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