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Senegal, United Nations
Dakar pushing candidate for UN High Commissionner for Human Rights

Ex-President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, head of the influential United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) since 2018, will not serve a second term. Dakar has just submitted its candidate to Antonio Guterres. [...]

Published on 18/07/2022 at 06:00 GMT

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Adama Dieng
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African Union, Libya, United Nations
AU lobbying to impose African candidate in UN mediator role in Libya

The pan-African organisation recently sent a list to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of four candidates it would like to see head the UN mission in Libya, including two of Africa's diplomatic heavyweights. Africa Intelligence reveals their names.

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In Focus | Africa, United Nations
Chad, Togo and Ivory Coast vie for blue helmet contracts

Amid Europe's gradual military withdrawal from Mali and as peacekeeping needs grow in the Central African Republic, three states are jostling for lucrative troop contribution contracts. But the UN's strict rules on equipment and training place tall hurdles in the way of their ambitions.

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A Chadian MINUSMA soldier parades during a visit by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous to Tessalit, Mali, in March 2013.

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Francophone Africa loses key United Nations posts

A number of senior UN posts, which have traditionally gone to diplomats from francophone Africa, are now being fought over by anglophone and lusophone African states. Meanwhile, the position for head of the Department of Peace Operations, Paris's preserve for the best part of two decades and currently headed by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is being chased by China.

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Top: Senegal's Mankeur Ndiaye (left), replaced by Rwandan diplomat Valentine Rugwabiza (right) as head of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone. Bottom: Guinea's Bintou Keita (left), who was succeeded by Ghana's Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee as Assistant Secretary-General for Africa at the DOP (right).

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How Dakar became West Africa's 'strategic thinking' capital

Over the last decade, Dakar has established itself as the centre of 'strategic thinking' in West Africa. The city boasts a think tank ecosystem where ministers, former generals, researchers and donors mingle.

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Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal, United Nations
Dakar pushing candidate for UN High Commissionner for Human Rights

African Union, Libya, United Nations
AU lobbying to impose African candidate in UN mediator role in Libya

In Focus | Africa, United Nations
Chad, Togo and Ivory Coast vie for blue helmet contracts

Africa
Francophone Africa loses key United Nations posts

West Africa
How Dakar became West Africa's 'strategic thinking' capital