UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs Norwegian Ambassador Tom Vraalsen in June accepted Khartoum's insistence that all aid go in from the north...
JJ chats with the spooks Rawlings' subsequent 'discussions' with state security further fired his outbursts against the Kufuor government carefully timed to coincide with visits to Ghana by international figures such as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (a Ghanaian) and United States former President Bill Clinton...
Ibrahim Gambari the Nigerian who heads the ineffectual UN Mission in Angola (UNMA) as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Special Representative insisted on meeting Valentim who despite his noisy complaints was excluded from the Joint Commission (JC) to oversee the 1994 Lusaka accords which were resuscitated following Jonas Savimbi's death...
In July UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed a Mauritanian diplomat Ahmedou Ould Abdallah Executive Secretary of the Global Coalition for Africa as his Special Representative for West Africa...
Vol 43 No 18 |
- MOZAMBIQUE
Three days before the escape United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was in Maputo praising Mozambique as a success story that had proved the Afro-pessimists wrong...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan visited Khartoum this month and discussed the question which remains unresolved...
Vol 43 No 6 |
- NORTH AFRICA
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and his personal envoy for Western Sahara the United States' former Secretary of State James Baker III worry about the cost of a UN mission without end the Mission des Nations Unies pour le Référendum dans le Sahara Occidental (Minurso) which has cost US$500 million since it started operations in 1991 and has produced no referendum...
Vol 43 No 4 |
- WEST AFRICA
Taylor rejected Secretary General Kofi Annan's nomination of Haile Menkerios an Eritrean diplomat to replace the Gambian-born Taylorphile Felix Downes-Thomas as head of the UN Peace-Building Support Office in Liberia (UNOL)...
Vol 43 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Trevor Manuel South Africa's highly regarded Finance Minister has been nominated as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy to the conference to energise donor support...
The UN is reluctant to do anything that might have a direct humanitarian impact and Secretary General Kofi Annan has grown extremely cautious about sanctions...