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IMF Appoints Mauritania’s Zeidane to Head Africa Department
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The Bretton Woods institution has formalized the appointment of Zeine Ould Zeidane as director of its Africa department. A decision that devotes an experienced profile, already well anchored to the IMF, and ends several weeks of speculation internally.
IMF appoints Mauritania’s Zeidane to head Africa Department
Mauritanian Zeine Zeidane has been appointed director of the IMF’s Africa Department. A former prime minister and an IMF official for more than a decade, he takes up the role at a time when African states’ expectations for financing and reforms remain high. The International Monetary Fund said on April 3, 2026 it had appointed Zeine Zeidane as director of its Africa Department, succeeding Ethiopia’s Abebe Aemro Selassie, who will step down on Ma…
IMF Chief Appoints Mauritania’s Zeine Zeidane as African Department Director – Ethiopian Monitor
Mauritania’s Zeine Zeidane has been appointed as Director of the African Department (AFR) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Zeidane will succeed Abebe Aemro Selassie, who will retire from the Fund on May 1, 2026 after serving in his current position for a decade. “I have informed the Executive Board of my intention to appoint Mr. Zeine Zeidane as the Director of the African Department,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said, an…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced, Friday, April 3, 2026, the intention of its Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to appoint the Mauritanian Zeine Zeidane as Director of the Africa Department. He will succeed Abebe Aemro Selassie, whose retirement is scheduled for May 1, 2026. The announcement was formalized by the IMF in a statement published in Washington. This appointment places a seasoned Mauritanian economist in a strategi…
On Friday, IMF Director General Christalina Georgieva announced her intention to appoint Zine Ould Zeidan as Director of the African Department of the Fund, to succeed Abebe Amr Selassie, who was due to retire on 1 May 2026. In a statement, Georgieva stated that she had informed the Executive Board of her intention to appoint Ould Zeidan, noting that he would place his economic policy experience and knowledge of the Foundation at the service of …
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