The UN's new special envoy on Sudan Finland's Pekka Haavisto who replaces Algeria's Ramtane Lamamra has made encouraging noises about the Quintet's role but it's unclear whether he can influence the UN Security Council...

Pekka Haavisto the new UN envoy and former Finnish foreign minister could be a contact point between the two – on enforcing and monitoring – if a humanitarian truce can be agreed...

After meeting the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Sudan Pekka Haavisto Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi warned that the continued flow of arms into Sudan risks deepening the conflict and triggering wider regional instability...

After a competitive application process Belgian diplomat Bernard Quintin was picked and Finnish former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto dropped out...

Last month Pekka Haavisto the European Union's Special Envoy to Ethiopia and Finland's Foreign Minister described sanctions as means for both sides to agree a ceasefire suggesting Abiy's government planned 'to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years'...

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto is to return to the region to underline EU 'readiness to act if this situation continues'...

The Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto infuriated Ethiopian officials by saying the humanitarian situation there was 'out of control' (see Box Abiy's tussle with Brussels)...

Abiy's tussle with Brussels Ethiopia's anger with foreign commentary on the Tigray situation turned to fury after Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto briefed European Union ministers on 22 February that the crisis in Tigray region was 'out of control' and that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government was 'in denial' about the scale of the humanitarian crisis there...