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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC MALI

United Nations ramp up use of intelligence drones across peacekeeping missions

The new head of the MINUSMA forces Lieutenant General Cornelis Johannes Matthijssen.
The new head of the MINUSMA forces Lieutenant General Cornelis Johannes Matthijssen. © United nations
In Mali, as in the Central African Republic, UN peacekeeping missions are increasingly reaching out to private contractors to hire drones to boost their intelligence capabilities, in a move backed at the highest level in New York. [...] (457 words)
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AFRICA 02/05/2022

Francophone Africa loses key United Nations posts 

A number of senior UN posts, which have traditionally gone to diplomats from francophone Africa, are now being fought over by anglophone and lusophone African states. Meanwhile, the position for head of the Department of Peace Operations, Paris's preserve for the best part of two decades and currently headed by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is being chased by China. [...]
Top: Senegal's Mankeur Ndiaye (left), replaced by Rwandan diplomat Valentine Rugwabiza (right) as head of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone. Bottom: Guinea's Bintou Keita (left), who was succeeded by Ghana's Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee as Assistant Secretary-General for Africa at the DOP (right).
Top: Senegal's Mankeur Ndiaye (left), replaced by Rwandan diplomat Valentine Rugwabiza (right) as head of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone. Bottom: Guinea's Bintou Keita (left), who was succeeded by Ghana's Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee as Assistant Secretary-General for Africa at the DOP (right). © UN Photo/Loey Felipe/Evan Schneider/Simon Ruf/Eskinder Debebe

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