Horst Köhler

Momentum behind the peace process stalled when former German President Horst Köhler stood down as the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara in May on health grounds (AC Vol 60 No 11 Köhler leaves the hot seat)...

Horst Köhler's appointment as the UN Secretary-General António Guterres's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara in July 2017 was welcomed by Morocco for whom the former German President and International Monetary Fund chief was a professed 'close friend' who understood its historic claim to the disputed Western Sahara...

No wonder the Saharawi movement urged Guterres 'to act quickly to appoint a Personal Envoy with the same conviction as Horst Köhler'...

Guterres's new UN envoy to the Western Sahara former German President Horst Köhler is also trusted by Rabat (AC Vol 59 No 1 Forward on the southern front)...

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has been looking to give peace talks new impetus supported by the former German President and former IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler as his special envoy...

The recently appointed United Nations envoy former International Monetary Fund managing director and German President Horst Köhler is seen as more sympathetic to Rabat but has stayed silent as he seeks a way out of a still intractable problem...

Other donor states are sceptical about this despite warm public encouragement from the IMF's Managing Director Horst Köhler...

Bank President James Wolfensohn has argued for giving developing countries more weight; like IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler he seems keen on reform but short on specifics...

In discussions with officials in Nairobi on 7-8 July IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler pointed this out and later took it up with Kibaki at the African Union summit in Mozambique...

Bank President Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler are squeezed between Western treasuries demanding better returns for their aid dollars and radicals who focus on policy failings...

Politically it seems IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler has dropped demands for the laborious Inter-Congolese dialogue to succeed as a precondition for funding...