UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's latest report to the Security Council suggests that a UN mission might replace the AU one in mid-June depending on progress in the National Reconciliation Conference and on the fighting in Mogadishu...
More will soon be presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...
Vol 48 No 4 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an inquiry and the head of Monuc expressed concern about army and police violence...
Vol 48 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Ban Ki-moon had his first African outing as new UN Secretary General and spent much of it trying to convince Omer to accept an initial deployment of 3 000 UN personnel to support the floundering AU mission in Darfur...
Though Sweden's Jan Eliasson the new Sudan Special Representative of new UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is seen as more diplomatic than his ill fated predecessor Jan Pronk (AC Vol 47 No 22) he cannot change Khartoum's behaviour without tough backing from the UN Security Council...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
With the new United Nations Secretary General South Korean diplomat Ban Ki-moon unlikely to be as committed to a settlement in the Sahara as his predecessor Kofi Annan the Saharan issue could be left to slide further...