africa: Mocumbi in Final Phase of WHO Election

Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi has made it through to the final phase of the election of the next general director of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The others who have passed into the final stage are the Belgian Peter Piot, who heads the UNAIDS programme, the South Korean Jong Woo Ook, who heads the WHO programme against tuberculosis, the Mexican health minister Julio Frank Mora, and the former Egyptian health minister, Ismaial Salam.