{"id":407155,"date":"2018-03-07T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=407155"},"modified":"2018-03-07T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:58:29","slug":"ghanas-kiki-gbeho-appointed-dep-head-of-au-un-mission-in-dafur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=407155","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Kiki Gbeho appointed dep. Head of AU-UN mission in Dafur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres and African Union Commission Cha<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">irperson Moussa Faki on Tuesday announced the appointment of Anita Kokui Gbeho of Ghana as Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Ms. Gbeho succeeds Bintou Keita of Guinea, to whom the Secretary-General and the Commission Chairperson are grateful for her dedicated service during her tenure with UNAMID.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gbeho brings to the position a wealth of experience from her distinguished career in the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, she has served as Resident Coordinator\/Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme, Namibia, where she supported the Government of Namibia to coordinate its external development assistance through the United Nations Partnership and Namibian Development Frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Ms. Gbeho was Chief of Section for Africa I (2012-2015) and Head of Office for Somalia (2008-2012) with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gbeho held other senior positions such as Director for Monitoring and Evaluation Unit in the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinators Office in Sudan (2006-2008) and Head of OCHA Liaison Office in South Sudan (2004-2006), during which time she led the strategic planning process of the United Nations and partners for Sudan; and managed the humanitarian and transition operations for South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gbeho holds a master\u2019s degree in international relations from the University of Ghana and a bachelor\u2019s degree in Social Sciences and Africana Studies from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Accra in 1964, she has a daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: UNAMID<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki on Tuesday announced the appointment of Anita Kokui Gbeho of Ghana as Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). Ms. Gbeho succeeds Bintou Keita of Guinea, to whom the Secretary-General and the Commission Chairperson are grateful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":407164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,107],"tags":[17651,17650,3,17649],"class_list":["post-407155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-international","tag-au-mission","tag-dafur-mission","tag-ghana-news","tag-kiki-gbeho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}