Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has reacted after a Swiss Newspaper issued an apology for referring to her as “grandmother” while reporting that she is the new Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO).
"It is important & timely that they’ve apologized," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a tweet.
"This grandmother will become the boss of the WTO," read the headline of the article published by the Aargauer Zeitung and several other papers on February 9.
In her tweet, Ngozi welcomed the apology and said she was "thankful to all my sisters, UN Women Leaders, and the 124 Ambassadors in Geneva who signed the petition on calling out the racist & sexist remarks in this newspaper."
