According to his staff President Hassan Sheikh called UN Secretary-General António Guterres making it clear that were Guterres to renew Laing's mandate he would declare her persona non grata...

With tacit support for the case from the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and countervailing pressure from Washington the task of the ICJ panel will be made harder still...

The CNRD has ruled that none of its members nor any current government minister will be allowed to stand in the elections that restore democracy but the posters of Doumbouya in mufti meeting UN Secretary General António Guterres plastered all over Conakry hint at presidential ambition...

The plan had been to start the pull-out from Kinshasa and Goma in late 2024 but in September Tshisekedi demanded from the podium at the UN General Assembly that this be brought forward to December 2023 and UN Secretary-General António Guterres seems in little mood to dissent...

Some of the proposals in the Nairobi Declaration backed by the 15 African leaders who attended the summit and others including United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were standard fare; urging wealthy states to keep their 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance and to operationalise the 'loss and damage' fund agreed on during COP27 last year to compensate the countries and communities worst hit by climate change (AC Vol 63 No 23 Delegates haggle in Egypt as the planet burns)...

South Africa was the runner-up choosing Egypt and Ethiopia as the new African members of the bloc and boosting its campaign for African representation in the IMF World Bank the G20 and the UN Security Council (UN Secretary General António Guterres echoed that at the summit)...

The junta has ignored UN Secretary-General António Guterres' expression of concern about his wellbeing and call for his reinstatement in office...

The Haitian government and UN Secretary General António Guterres have been calling for international support for over a year...

This last point was news to the UN Security Council (UNSC) which on 16 June discussed the latest report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Mali...