Ban Ki-moon

A new report from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office warns that fighting on the Mali-Algeria border could spill over into Western Sahara and that jihadists could cross into camps and radicalise the refugees there...

He asked for a change in the electoral order even petitioning United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon so that legislative elections take place before presidential...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon proclaimed it an ‘important historic and milestone’ agreement...

That at least is the French and West African plan but UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon remains far from convinced...

Issayas wrote on 5 February to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to complain that Eritrea had been the ‘target of malicious and concerted practices of human trafficking’ for the past ten years or so and to request ‘an independent and transparent investigation’ by the UN...

Elsewhere UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s innate caution on Mali has attracted some criticism for holding up the mission...

We hear Ban Ki-moon suggested that Rwanda’s Paul Kagame Congo-Kinshasa’s Joseph Kabila and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni could sign the agreement without the other five leaders...

A group of Sierra Leonean ‘civil society activists’ has written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking him to investigate Bangura...

Even the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called military action the ‘last resort’...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had quickly and angrily condemned the attack...

• United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairwoman of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: the priority should be political dialogue between the government and the jihadist and other rebel groups Ban told the UNSC but conceded that military action might be required as ‘a last resort to deal with the most hardline extremist and criminal elements’...