Ethiopia’s parliament approved appointment of senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country’s first female president.
She replaced Mulatu Teshome Wirtu.
Presently, she is the U.N. under-secretary general and special representative of the secretary general to the African Union.
The Ethiopian cabinet also appointed 10 female ministers, making Ethiopia the 3rd country in Africa, after Rwanda and Seychelles, to achieve gender parity in their cabinets.