{"id":240258,"date":"2026-08-03T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-meet-nigerias-comfort-ero-first-black-woman-to-head-international-crisis-group\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:28:05","slug":"nigeria-meet-nigerias-comfort-ero-first-black-woman-to-head-international-crisis-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-meet-nigerias-comfort-ero-first-black-woman-to-head-international-crisis-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Meet Nigeria&#8217;s Comfort Ero, First Black Woman to Head International Crisis Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">When Comfort Ero accepted the role of president and chief executive of the International Crisis Group, she knew she was stepping into one of the world&#8217;s most demanding leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">What she did not anticipate was that just two months into the job, Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine would thrust the organisation into one of the most significant global crises in recent history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Ero made history as the first Black woman to lead the New York-based think tank since its establishment in 1995,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608030817.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Comfort Ero accepted the role of president and chief executive of the International Crisis Group, she knew she was stepping into one of the world&#8217;s most demanding leadership positions. What she did not anticipate was that just two months into the job, Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine would thrust the organisation into one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8561,31080,3723,55034,5192,4337,6508,257,4687,393,5761,254,4307],"class_list":["post-240258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-comfort","tag-crisis","tag-ero","tag-group","tag-international","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}