UN -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named a Mauritanian diplomat on Saturday as his envoy to Yemen, charged with trying to broker peace in the country.
| I didn't realize Mauritania had diplomats... |
| Everyone has diplomats. It gives the over-educated, underemployed first sons of the ruling class -- not to mention the unemployed second through nth sons and ambitious daughters of ditto -- something to do that keeps them out from underfoot of those running the famijly business back home. That young Bhutto was not kitted out as a diplomat after he failed as a politician suggests he is seriously missing something in the upper story. |
| So okay, it could be work: Ahmed could have stayed in Mauritania... |
Ban notified the UN Security Council on Thursday of his intention to appoint Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to replace Jamal Benomar, a Moroccan diplomat who brokered a 2011 transition aimed at quelling political turmoil in Yemen. The Security Council approved the selection on Saturday.
“Ould Cheikh Ahmed will work closely with the members of the United Nations Security Council, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Governments in the region and other partners, as well as the United Nations Country Team for Yemen,” Ban said in a statement.
Since December Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been heading the United Nations Ebola response mission, UNMEER.
| So he's well experienced with managing disasters... |
He has almost three decades of development and aid experience with the United Nations.
More recently, he was UN resident humanitarian and development coordinator in Syria between 2008 and 2012, and in Yemen from 2012 to 2014. |