Ban Ki-moon

When South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon became UN Secretary General in January 2007 he pledged to reform UN management – and to make climate change and Sudan’s Darfur his top priorities...

Against Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's advice the UNSC last week repeated its August call for contingency planning for a possible UN force...

DIPLOMATIC DEFECTS Few question the substance of the SPLM complaints (AC Vol 48 No 15) and even United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was uncharacteristically blunt when he called on both parties 'especially the National Congress Party' to work for the CPA...

Freshly-installed Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was pitted against new political leaders from France Britain and Nigeria while some of the old guard from South Africa and the United States were planning their exits and successions after one final year in power...

From the start of his tenure on 1 January United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was determined to make radical changes install his own people and stamp his own priorities - climate change and a UN peacekeeping force for Darfur - on the organisation...

Last week Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin warned the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that his country might withdraw from the Algiers Agreement which governs the resolution of the dispute...

Salva left no doubt he had made his objections clear to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Juba on 4 September and to the Norwegian and Chinese governments he had visited...

He withdrew last October apparently when he saw that the United States favoured Ban Ki-moon...

While El Samani was trying to charm the US government part of which sees Salah Gosh as its friend International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luís Moreno-Ocampo was slamming the regime in New York where he briefed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on ICC investigations in Central African Republic Congo-Kinshasa Uganda and Sudan...

Adada (61) the joint UN-AU Special Envoy agreed by AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's Foreign Minister for ten years and is a presidential confidant...