Anita Gbeho | |
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| Born | 2000 |
| Nationality | Ghana |
| Employer | United Nations |
Anita Kiki Gbeho ( born 1964) is a Ghanaian United Nations official who has been the Deputy Special Envoy for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia UNSOM since 2020 .
Life edit
Gbeho was born in Accra. She attended the State University of New York (SUNY), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and African Studies. She then took a masters in international relations at the University of Ghana.[1]
She has worked with partners in conflict and post-conflict environments in Cambodia, Iraq and in Africa in Namibia, Angola, Sudan and Somalia. She has worked In New York as the Head of Section at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ) and she has led OCHA's work in Somalia and South Sudan. She organised humanitarian help during the transition of South Sudan.[2]
Between 2015 and 2016 she was the Resident Coordinator and Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Namibia.[2] She then became Deputy Joint Special Envoy for the ( African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), taking over from Bintou Keita.[2] In 2018 her ultimate boss United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres noted that their had been no measurable political improvement in Darfur.[3]
Gbeho was appointed Deputy Special Envoy by António Guterres at the end of 2020 for the United Nations Support Mission in Somalia UNSOM, succeeding Raisedon Zenenga from Zimbabwe,[1] who became the Assistant UN Secretary-General coordinator of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).[1]
Gbeho is part of the leadership team in Somalia working under James Swan.[4] In January 2022 she was in Mogadishu attending the Africa Union (AU) - Federal Government of Somalia's Technical meeting with international representatives including Tiina Intelmann of the EU and Kate Foster of the UK.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General | United Nations Secretary-General". www.un.org. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ a b c "Anita Gbeho new Unamid deputy representative". Radio Dabanga. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ "Report: UN Secretary-General António Guterres laments 'no tangible progress' in Darfur". Radio Dabanga. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ "Leadership". UNSOM. 2015-03-13. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ AMISOM Public Information (2022-01-31), African Union, Somalia & International partners discuss AMISOM mission post 2021, retrieved 2022-01-31