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Ban appoints Malian national as Special Representative for UN Guinea-Bissau office

India Blooms News Service | | May 06, 2016, at 01:42 pm

#Ban Ki-Moon # Special Representative # UN Guinea-Bissau office #

New York, May 6 (Just Earth News/IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday announced the appointment of Modibo TourÃ© of Mali as his new Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau and Head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).

Touré replaces Miguel Trovoada of São Tome and Principe, who completed his assignment on 30 April 2016.

He served as Special Adviser to the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, he was the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative ad interim of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Kenya in 2013.

Touré worked in 2012 as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in the Central African Republic, and served as UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Chad and Ethiopia.

He has held high-level positions in the African Development Bank and served as Minister of New Technologies, Telecommunications and Post Office in Mali.

Photo: UNIOGBIS

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