The AU has also been heavily criticised especially the Chairman Commission Chad's former foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat and its Special Envoy to Sudan Mohamed el Hacen Lebatt who uncritically endorsed the military and often ignored civilian groups...
It was the most violent action by the military since the tripartite mediation run by the UN's Volker Perthes the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the African Union's Mohamed el Hacen Lebatt took shape in April (AC Vol 63 No 6 The junta runs out of bread and road)...
The inclusion of these groups had been pushed by AU Special Envoy Mahamed el Hacen Ould Lebatt who argued that the full political spectrum should be represented...
Shuttle diplomacy on a broken loom On 10 May the African Union representative Mahamed el Hacen Ould Lebatt and the special UN envoy Volker Perthes were supposed to launch a new initiative to end the long and violent crisis that erupted with the latest coup in Sudan on 25 October last year (AC Vol 63 No 6 The junta runs out of bread and road)...
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The UN's Perthes and AU's Mohamed el Hacen Lebatt are to cooperate to bolster efforts to end the stalemate and stand-off between the generals and the civilians...
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The talks were brokered by an African Union mediator Mohamed el Hacen Lebatt a veteran advisor to Moussa Faki Mahamat the former Chadian Foreign Minister who now chairs the AU Commission (AC Vol 43 No 4 High stakes at Sun City)...
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In Brussels on 11 February elections were organised by three senior diplomats Botswana's Ambassador Archibald Mogwi; a Mauritanian professor Hacen Lebatt; and an Italian diplomat Ugo Solinas...