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    USAID’s New Zimbabwe Mission Director: Melissa Williams

    By Eliza Villarino // 06 August 2011

    Melissa Williams was officially sworn in on Aug. 5 as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s mission in Zimbabwe.

    In her post, Williams will “help Zimbabwe’s democratic forces advance reforms and provide much-needed humanitarian assistance,” according to a USAID press release.

    Williams has been with USAID since 1987. Prior to her current assignment, she was the mission director for Zambia. 

    Read more on U.S. aid reform online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders – emailed to you FREE every business day.

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        Eliza Villarino

        Eliza Villarino currently manages one of today’s leading publications on humanitarian aid, global health and international development, the weekly GDB. At Devex, she has helped grow a global newsroom, with talented journalists from major development hubs such as Washington, D.C, London and Brussels. She regularly writes about innovations in global development.

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