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UNESCO struggles to find candidates for Africa assistant director

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The ambassadors slated to become the next Assistant Director-General for Priority Africa and External Relations at UNESCO, reporting to Director-General Audrey Azoulay, did not apply.

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Bahrain’s ambassador in Cairo, Fawzia Zainal, in Manama, in September 2010.
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A woman sorts vanilla pods by size in Antalaha, northeast Madagascar, September 2023.
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The Central African Republic president, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, at the UN headquarters in New York, on 24 September 2025.
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Guinean President Mamadi Doumbouya in Nairobi, Kenya on 12 May 2026.
Inner Circle | DRC In the shadow of General 'Omega', the FDLR's last men standing
A projectile detonates outside the city of Goma in February 2025.
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The Nigerien prime minister, Ali Lamine Zeine, and his counterpart from the Libyan Government of National Unity, Abdelhamid Dabaiba, in Tripoli on 15 June 2026.
Ivory Coast CMA CGM chief Rodolphe Saadé set for Abidjan visit
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