Ban Ki-moon

• United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairwoman of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: the priority should be political dialogue between the government and the jihadist and other rebel groups Ban told the UNSC but conceded that military action might be required as ‘a last resort to deal with the most hardline extremist and criminal elements’...

Opening a debate on piracy at the UN Security Council on 19 November UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that for offshore Somalia the ‘challenges remain significant’...

Paris is pushing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint Jean Ping outgoing Chairman of the African Union Commission as his Special Envoy for the Sahel region a new position that could turn into head of an Amisom-type presence in Mali...

The issuing of the visa denotes Santos as a foreign official but UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will not accept his credentials leaving him in diplomatic limbo recognised at home but not at the UN...

Rajoelina wrote to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on 12 June with other ideas though...

This combined with Juba’s seizure of Heglig and Salva Kiir’s public repudiation of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s order to pull out of the oil town weakened the South’s diplomatic standing...

The row exposes fresh divisions on Sudan at the UN Security Council and disarray in Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office...

Yet neither he nor his fellow platform occupants – Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Commission President Jean Ping – could announce any breakthrough (AC Vol 53 No 4 No great expectations)...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon closed the door on a bitter dispute with the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma by recalling his Executive Representative for the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone Michael von der Schulenburg on 2 February...

France had proposed that the UN be empowered to certify the poll (as it was in Côte d’Ivoire) but Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was against it...