UN chief names new special representative for Guinea-Bissau
Xinhua, May 6, 2016 Adjust font size:
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday announced the appointment of Modibo Toure of Mali as his new special representative for Guinea-Bissau and head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).
Toure replaces Miguel Trovoada of Sao Tome and Principe, who completed his assignment on April 30.
The secretary-general is grateful to Trovoada's leadership and for the accomplishments of the UN Mission during his tenure at UNIOGBIS, Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here.
Toure served as special adviser to the special envoy for the Great Lakes Region from 2013 to 2015.
Prior to that, he was the United Nations resident coordinator, humanitarian coordinator and resident Representative ad interim of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Kenya in 2013.
He worked in 2012 as the deputy special representative of the UN secretary-general, resident coordinator and humanitarian coordinator ad interim in the Central African Republic, and served as UN resident coordinator and humanitarian coordinator and UNDP resident representative in Chad and Ethiopia.
He held high-level positions in the African Development Bank and served as the minister of new technologies, telecommunications and post office in Mali. Endit