Meanwhile for national planning minister we have heard three names suggested: Amina J Mohammed former Special Economic Advisor to the President and currently Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; the former Governor of Ekiti State Kayode Fayemi who has also been suggested as Foreign Minister; and former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola...
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They included United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement-North Britain Amnesty International and the National Umma Party (though not El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi who called for restorative rather than retributive justice)...
Ban Ki-moon denied Press reports of a determined cover up by senior UNAMID officials of the Sudan government's abuses in Darfur...
Last June Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano became Dlamini-Zuma's Envoy to the Sahara prompting Mezouar's recent angry letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon which rejected any AU involvement...
Vol 56 No 10 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Fearing further incursions into the UN's sites for protection of civilians as happened recently in Bor and last year in Akobo combined with their general unsuitability for civilian habitation UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the UNSC that UN agencies were currently considering 'the option of assisted voluntary relocations of internally displaced persons'...
Vol 56 No 3 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
On 3 January the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon unusually and publicly criticised both Salva and Riek for putting their own interests first and failing to agree a power-sharing accord...
Now pressure is mounting on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who insists ending Sudan's violence is top priority and the AU Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who says women's and children's rights are a principal aim...
Vol 55 No 22 |
- WEST AFRICA
Key UN member states notably Britain and the US have concerns about UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon setting up UNMEER: they fear it could add another layer of bureaucracy from an organisation notorious for creating them...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cited the plethora of new pledges to cut emissions (all voluntary) the strengthening popular movement for far more stringent environmental controls and some US$500 billion of proposed projects for green energy set out at the Summit...
Vol 55 No 19 |
- GUINEA BISSAU
A Special Representative of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the former President of São Tomé e Príncipe Miguel Trovoada has been appointed and the local European Union mission is being restaffed...