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UN chief names new deputy head of UN peacekeeping mission in DRC

Xinhua, May 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday tapped Mamadou Diallo of Guinea as the Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUSCO).

Diallo will succeed Moustapha Soumare of Mali. He currently serves as the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Regional Director for West and Central Africa. Diallo, a public health expert, will also be UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in DRC.

"He brings to this position many years of experience with the United Nations system with over two decades of increasingly responsible managerial and leadership positions in development and humanitarian operations at the national, regional and international level," Ban said in the appointment statement.

MONUSCO took over from an earlier UN peacekeeping operation in July 2010. The 22,000-strong force has been mandated to protect civilians, humanitarian personnel and human rights defenders, as well as to support the government in its stabilization and peace consolidation efforts. Endite