Relations between Lesotho and the United Nations agencies were further strengthened when the newly United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative and UN Resident Coordinator to Lesotho Ms.Ahunna Eziakonwa-Onochie paid a courtesy call to His Majesty King Letsie III on Thursday.

A Nigerian by birth, Ms. Eziakonwa-Onochie resumed her duties early this month after presenting her credentials to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Mr. Mohlabi Tsekoa, assuring to continue to advocate for UN interventions to improve people’s lives in the country.

She also paid a courtesy call to the Prime Minister Mr. Pakalitha Mosisili.

She succeeds Ms. Hodan Haji-Mohamud who left Lesotho in September last year to UNDP head office in New York.

The UN Resident Coordinator is expected to carry out duties of the United Nations for a period of three years in the country.

Ms. Eziakonwa-Onochie was educated in both Nigeria and the United States. She has extensive international experience, with specific focus on international development and humanitarian assistance.

During her 12 years of work at the UN Secretariat, she served in the departments of Public Information, Peacekeeping operations and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Her last assignment was with OCHA in New York, where she served as the Chief of the Africa Section, managing over 15-country-operations in Africa.

Source: LENA 21/08/2008