Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Aboul Gheit was reappointed to head the Arab League. The foreign ministers of the organization’s 22 member states elected Gheit for a second five-year term as secretary-general of the Arab League on Thursday.
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Gheit, 78, served as Egypt’s last foreign minister under deposed President Hosni Mubarak, leaving his post in 2011.
Egypt, which hosts the Arab League in Cairo, has been nominating the director-general since the league’s formation in 1945. There was no opposition to Gheit.