{"id":8601,"date":"2013-06-22T03:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T03:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-mutatoba-appointed-as-au-un-joint\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:10:11","slug":"rwanda-s-mutatoba-appointed-as-au-un-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-mutatoba-appointed-as-au-un-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutatoba Appointed as AU &#038; UN Deputy Joint Special Representative for Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3021 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/9090.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Joseph Mutaboba}<\/p>\n<p>{{Rwandan politician and diplomat Joseph Mutaboba has been appointed as the new African Union and United Nations Deputy Joint Special Representative in Darfur and Deputy Head of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid).}}<\/p>\n<p>Mutatoba, whose appointment was announced by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, on Thursday, served until January this year as the Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau and Head of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS).<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as the Rwandan President\u2019s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, as Secretary-General in his country\u2019s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Internal Affairs, and has held several senior positions as the Deputy National Coordinator for Rwanda, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1999 to 2001 and as a senior diplomat in Addis Ababa and Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Mutaboba replaces Aichatou Mindaoudou of Niger, who was appointed last month as special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Head of the United Nations Operation in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (UNOCI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Joseph Mutaboba} {{Rwandan politician and diplomat Joseph Mutaboba has been appointed as the new African Union and United Nations Deputy Joint Special Representative in Darfur and Deputy Head of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid).}} Mutatoba, whose appointment was announced by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}