When the food crisis erupted, he quickly knocked heads together so that various bodies, including the World Bank and the World Food Programme, could co-operate and help vulnerable countries.

To attend department heads meeting in the absence of the DOSM, review sales efforts and to ensure smooth co-operation in the coordination of the hotel.

But even this is progress of sorts: before the new co-operative was established, profits were handed out only to male family heads, to divide up as they wished.