Ban Ki-moon

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s ‘order’ to Salva Kiir to withdraw his troops from Heglig (seen abroad as Sudanese but in the non-delineated border area) went down badly in a country rejoicing in a sovereignty for which it had battled for half a century...

Meece and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon firmly rejected fearing it would be caught up in a violent election dispute...

On 19 October UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that he would send an ‘assessment mission’ in November after a request from Benin...

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is appointing an assessment mission to the region to look at the issue and both France and the United States have sent warships to assist navies in Benin Ghana Nigeria and Togo to track down the pirates...

Hopes are not high for the successor UN Mission in the South notwithstanding the appointment of Hilde Frafjord Johnson as Special Representative of the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

With that support behind him Alassane Ouattara was then able to take his case to the UN in New York energetically helped by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office and the French UN mission...

Ban Ki-moon’s envoy and fellow South Korean Choi Young-jin told Africa Confidential that all the angles of the electoral dispute had been covered lto the satisfaction of the AU’s PSC and the UN Security Council...

As the summonses were issued he arrived in New York hoping to persuade UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council to support Kenya’s application for a one-year deferment under Article 16 of the Rome Statute...

Claims from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office that Belarus was delivering three Mi-24 attack helicopters suggest a military escalation and serious investment by Gbagbo and his backers in a clear violation of the 2004 UN arms embargo...

Although United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has publicly tempered his view of Gbagbo’s refusal to accept the results of the UN-certified elections in Côte d’Ivoire his predecessor Kofi Annan was less constrained: ‘If President Gbagbo is allowed to prevail ’ he said ‘election as an instrument of peaceful political change in Africa will suffer a serious setback...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also fails to see any analogy with Côte d’Ivoire where ADO’s election was recognised by the UN and African Union...

Ban Ki-moon has already visited Gabon and congratulated President Ali Bongo on his victory...