Maurizio Giuliano (born 1975) is an Italian
United Nations
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official, traveller, author and journalist. As of 2004 he was, according to the ''
Guinness Book of World Records'', the youngest person to have visited all
sovereign nations of the world (aged 28 years and 361 days).
[''Maurizio Giuliano: A Modern Day Marco Polo''](_blank)
World Atlas, 20 April 2016 He has worked for various international organizations in the field of media relations.
Personal life and education
Giuliano is the son of a lawyer father and a housewife mother.[ He has lived in Cuba, Chile and Indonesia.][
After completing high school in ]Milan
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and in Manchester
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, he earned a degree from the University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
in 1996[ Maurizio Giuliano, ''El Caso CEA: Intelectuales e Inquisidores en Cuba'' (back cover), ]Ediciones Universal
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, 1998, and a master's degree from the University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
in 1997.[ At ]University College, Oxford
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,[''New Role at United Nations''](_blank)
University College News, 2019 he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics,[ specialising in Latin America and eastern Europe.][ While at Oxford, he was a member of the ]Oxford University L'Chaim Society
The Oxford University L'Chaim Society was a student society at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 2001. At its peak, it was the second-largest society within the University of Oxford.
Name
''L'Chaim'' (לחיים ''le-KHA-im'') in Hebrew is a ...
.
As of 1998, he was a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CESOC) in Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
, Chile.[
]
Writings
Academic work on Cuba
He authored two books and some academic articles on Cuban politics, focusing among other things on the US embargo, which he claimed (in the book "''La Transición Cubana y el "Bloqueo" Norteamericano''" and other works) has a strong counter-productive effect, in supporting the continuation of Cuba's regime. In the book and other writings, Giuliano staunchly contested the view that an end to the Castro
Castro is a Romance language word that originally derived from Latin ''castrum'', a pre-Roman military camp or fortification (cf: Greek: ''kastron''; Proto-Celtic:''*Kassrik;'' br, kaer, *kastro). The English-language equivalent is '' chester''.
...
regime would be near,[Maurizio Giuliano]
''Scripting a Succession''
The New York Times
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, 14 June 1995 and expressed the view that any transition would be slow and gradual.
In an article published in the British academic journal
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''Democratization'' in 1998, he focused in particular on how the US embargo against Cuba helps create "empathy" by third parties towards Cuba, which is then domestically perceived as support towards Cuba's regime. He argued, hence, that the US Government - in addition to the embargo's direct influence on supporting Cuba's regime - indirectly inhibits potentially constructive pressures towards change, insofar as third countries, foreign non-governmental organizations and prominent individuals lend support to Cuba's resistance to the US embargo, and this offsets external pressures to democratize, thereby allowing the Cuban regime to convert such "empathy" into a source of legitimacy at home.[Maurizio Giuliano, ''The United States' embargo and Cuba's foreign relations: missed opportunities for democratization'', Democratization, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Autumn 1998]
Purge of Havana's Centre for American Studies (CEA)
His scholarly work on internal Cuban politics, notably on the 1996 purge
In history, religion and political science, a purge is a position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, another organization, their team leaders, or society as a whole. A group undertak ...
of Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. 's Centre for American Studies (CEA) (contained in the book "''El Caso CEA''" published in 1998), has been the object of academic reviews, as it exposed the internal conflicts between Cuba's political apparatus and the country's intelligentsia, previously unknown.[ Pablo Alfonso]
''Cuba hizo purga contra académicos''
, El Nuevo Herald
''El Nuevo Herald'' is a newspaper published daily in Spanish in Southeast Florida, United States. Its headquarters is in Doral. ''El Nuevo Heralds sister paper is the '' Miami Herald'', also produced by the McClatchy Company.
About ''el Nuevo ...
, 8 May 1998[ Alejandro Lorenzo]
''Presentan obra de purga académica''
, El Nuevo Herald
''El Nuevo Herald'' is a newspaper published daily in Spanish in Southeast Florida, United States. Its headquarters is in Doral. ''El Nuevo Heralds sister paper is the '' Miami Herald'', also produced by the McClatchy Company.
About ''el Nuevo ...
, 27 May 1998[Joel Edelstein (]University of Colorado
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)
''The Centro de Estudios sobre América: An Account of a Regrettable Loss''
(review of ''El Caso CEA''), Latin American Perspectives, Issue 125, Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2002, page 80 According to some reviews the book, a work of investigative journalism complemented by academic analysis, dealt a strong blow to hard-liners within the regime[ Carlos Ruíz]
''Cabellero reincide''
, Venezuela Analítica, 6 August 2001[ ]Carlos Alberto Montaner
Carlos Alberto Montaner (born April 3, 1943) is an exiled Cuban author and journalist known for his criticism of Fidel Castro and the Cuban government. He has been published widely in Latin American newspapers, and published fiction and non-fic ...
, ''El cadáver inquieto'', El Nuevo Herald
''El Nuevo Herald'' is a newspaper published daily in Spanish in Southeast Florida, United States. Its headquarters is in Doral. ''El Nuevo Heralds sister paper is the '' Miami Herald'', also produced by the McClatchy Company.
About ''el Nuevo ...
, 7 June 1998 by exposing for the first time the internal conflicts between Cuba's apparatus and its intelligentsia.[Peter Johnson (]Princeton University
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)
Review of ''¿ Intelectuales vs. Revolución ? El caso del Centro de Estudios sobre América''
Johns Hopkins University
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, 2001 In 2001 Cuban exiled scholars Alberto Álvarez and Gerardo González, who were among those purged from the CEA, wrote the book "''¿ Intelectuales vs. Revolución ? El caso del Centro de Estudios sobre América''", which strongly built upon Giuliano's book to offer further insights on relations between Cuba's political apparatus and the country's intellectuals. Along with these two scholars and Giuliano, Cuban sociologist Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
expressed the view that the purge mechanisms described in Giuliano's book have been a key pillar for the regime's ability to prevent the rise of reformers,[
Haroldo Dilla Alfonso,]
''The Rise and Fall of a Cuban Think Tank''
Havana Times
''Havana Times'' is an independent Cuban blog and online magazine founded in 2008. The online publication is edited in Nicaragua. Most of its contributors live in Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo. There are also Cuban contributors in Venez ...
, 27 March 2011[ Haroldo Dilla Alfonso]
"¿Qué pasó con el Centro de Estudios sobre América?"
Cuba Encuentro, 24 March 2011 and that such dynamics remain in place as late as 2016.[ Julio Aleaga Pesant]
''Cuando le quebraron el corazón al CEA''
Primavera Digital en Cuba, 16 March 2016
Journalism
Besides work on Cuba, other countries Giuliano covered in his journalistic work include East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...
[ Maurizio Giuliano]
''Timor Est, dove nessuno ride''
, Popoli, May 1999 and Myanmar
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(Burma).[''Journalist detained in Burma, photographs of Aung san Suu Kyi confiscated''](_blank)
, IFEX, August 2000[''Myanmar deports French and Italian journalists''](_blank)
Asian Political News, 24 August 1998[''Burma expels Italian reporter for "illegal reporting"''](_blank)
, TV Myanmar, 18 August 1998 In 1993 he worked for the Austria
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n weekly magazine Profil
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*''Profil (literary magazine)'', a Norwegian literary magazine
*''profil (magazine)'', an Austrian news magazine
* ''Profil (Russian magaz ...
, for which he interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, who expressed criticism at the reforms carried out by Russia
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n president Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
: when Yeltsin called a referendum for 25 April 1993 in an attempt to achieve even greater powers as president, Gorbachev told Giuliano that he would not vote and instead advocated for new presidential elections.[Maurizio Giuliano, ''Müssen schnell wählen'', Profil (Austria) (nr. 19, page 61), 10 May 1993]
In 2000, he visited North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
and published an essay about his visit, essentially describing his tour around the country as a '' mise en scène'' by the North Korean authorities.
In his journalistic work, he reportedly ran into problems with the authorities of at least two countries. On 16 August 1998 he was denied entry to Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
after making contact with the National League for Democracy
The National League for Democracy ( my, အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ်, ; abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (Burma). It ...
and meeting its leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...
,[''Italian journalist turned away''](_blank)
AFP, 17 August 1998[Gary Thomas]
''Burma has deported an Italian journalist''
Voice of America
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, 17 August 1998[''Second journalist ousted''](_blank)
The Irrawaddy
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, September 1998 with Myanmar authorities accusing him of falsely claiming to be a tourist[''Italian reporter with false document expelled'', ]New Light of Myanmar
''The New Light of Myanmar'' (, ; formerly ''The New Light of Burma'') is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon, Myanmar.
''The New Light of Myanmar'' is often viewed as propaganda on part of t ...
, 17 August 2008 and of "illegally gathering news",[Maung Hmat Kyauk, ''International Relations'', ]New Light of Myanmar
''The New Light of Myanmar'' (, ; formerly ''The New Light of Burma'') is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon, Myanmar.
''The New Light of Myanmar'' is often viewed as propaganda on part of t ...
, 25 August 1998[''Myanmar expels Italian reporter''](_blank)
Associated Press
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, 19 August 1998 which prompted condemnations by organizations such as the International Federation of Journalists and Reporters without Borders;[''Les journalistes dans le collimateur des généraux birmans'']
Libération, 19 August 1998 only in 2013 Giuliano managed to return to Myanmar and also meet Suu Kyi.[James Mackay,]
''Aung San Suu Kyi at the National League for Democracy Headquarters in Rangoon''
, Enigma Images, January 2013 While on 30 October 2002, he was reportedly detained and manhandled by Israeli authorities while crossing the Allenby Bridge
The Allenby Bridge (English name; he, גשר אלנבי ''Gesher Allenby''), known officially in Jordan as the King Hussein Bridge ( ar, جسر الملك حسين ''Jisr al-Malek Hussein''), and also called Al-Karameh Bridge by Palestinian Arab ...
, which also prompted condemnation by Reporters without Borders.[''Six journalists arrested''](_blank)
, Annual Report 2002, Reporters sans Frontières
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, 2002 Giuliano however describes his worst authorities-related odyssey as he was travelling in 2003 around the South Pacific, where authorities in New Zealand and some South Pacific islands reportedly caused serious hindrance to his movements for the simple fact that he appeared to be suspicious because of his strange travel patterns.[
Giuliano's writings have also included lighter topics. During his time in ]Kabul
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, for example, he wrote restaurant reviews for a local English-language magazine.[''Introduction''](_blank)
, Afghan Scene (magazine), Issue 11, May 2005, page 3
Political advocacy
In the early 2000s, Giuliano was a consultant for the Italian Senate's Committee on Human Rights.[''University College Record 2003'', ]University College, Oxford
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, 2003 At that time, some his writings were intended to influence the positions of the Italian Government on certain human rights issues, as was the case with material that he wrote on North Korea.''Activity Report''
, Life and Human Rights in North Korea, Spring 2000, Vol. 15, page 46
Development career
In 2004, Giuliano worked for the International Organization for Migration
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations agency that provides services and advice concerning migration to governments and migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers.
The IOM w ...
in the elections for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where he advocated for turnout by potential voters in spite of precarious security conditions.[''Pakistan: IOM busy with Afghan voter education campaign''](_blank)
IRIN, 29 September 2004[''Afghanistan - Pakistan: Insecurity hampered voter registration in North and South Waziristan''](_blank)
IRIN, 7 October 2004
Dawn
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, 5 October 2004 And in 2005 he worked in Afghanistan for the United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...
's justice division which endeavoured to reform the country's legal system.[''Attorney-General's Office one step closer to delivering justice for narcotics-related crime''](_blank)
(press release), UNDP
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, 14 May 2005[''Afghan Law Students Score High in Washington DC''](_blank)
(press release), UNDP, 4 April 2005 In both cases, he was working in the field of communications with the media.
He worked for the United Nations, again in the field of media relations, in Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...
in 2006, where he denounced very low levels of funding for a "neglected" emergency and called Western governments to be generous in saving lives of the most vulnerable Central Africans.[''Central African Republic: Humanitarian Crisis Continues, Funding Remains Low'' (press release)](_blank)
United Nations
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, 10 February 2006[''CAR: Donor conference begins in Cameroon''](_blank)
IRIN, 20 February 2006[''Plea for Humanitarian Aid in Northern CAR'', Angola Press, 22 February 2006][ Modeste J. Poubalandji]
Le Confident, 19 December 2005 He moved to Sudan in 2007, where he vocally denounced abuses by increasingly fragmented armed groups as well as access constraints caused by the Sudanese Government,Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. Since 2018, he has been the South Asia bureau chief of The New York Times based in New Delhi. From 2006-July 2017, he was East Africa bureau chief for ''The Times' ...
''Chaos in Darfur Rises as Arabs Fight With Arabs''
The New York Times
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, 3 September 2007[ Opheera McDoom]
''Sudan surrounds, attacks volatile Darfur camp - witness''
Reuters
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The agency was estab ...
, 22 August 2007[Opheera McDoom]
''Armed men attack police in Darfur refugee camp''
Reuters, 20 August 2007[Opheera McDoom]
Reuters, 16 August 2007[Anthony Lodiong, ''Boy aged 10 jailed for avenging father'', ]The Juba Post
''The Juba Post'' (also: ''The Juba Post Newspaper'') is an independent English-language newspaper in South Sudan. It currently has offices in both Juba and Khartoum. It is the first independent newspaper of South Sudan based in Juba, the capital ...
, page 1, 20–27 April 2007 and called for more funding also in response to floods that hit the city of Kassala
Kassala ( ar, كسلا) is the capital of the state of Kassala in eastern Sudan. Its 2008 population was recorded to be 419,030. Built on the banks of the Gash River, it is a market town and is famous for its fruit gardens.
Many of its inhabit ...
.[Alistair Thomson]
''Deadly floods, disease afflict Africa's arid Sahel''
Reuters, 15 August 2007[''UN spokesperson speaking to Aljazeera during Sudan Floods''](_blank)
Al Jazeera
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, August 2010 In 2008 he was posted to Chad
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, calling for more international attention amidst conflict between Chadian and pro-Sudanese forces which displaced more than half a million people,[Craig Timberg]
''Chadian Rebels Urge Cease-Fire As Push Falters''
The Washington Post
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, 6 February 2008[ Massimo Alberizzi]
''Yamena, la capital fantasma de un Chad arrasado por el terror''
El Mundo (Spain)
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History and profile
''El Mu ...
, 11 February 2008 and with the events culminating in the battle of N'Djamena of February 2008, after which he worked in Cameroon
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following the refugee crisis caused by war and asking for solid international support for the refugees and for reconstruction efforts,[Craig Timberg]
''Aid Groups Work to Avert Disaster Among Chadians in Cameroon''
The Washington Post
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, 8 February 2008[Sarah Simpson]
''Chadian refugees head home after failed rebel coup''
The Christian Science Monitor
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, 14 February 2008[ R.M.]
''Maurizio Giuliano: "Une trés bonnne réponse de la communauté internationale"''
Cameroon Tribune, 18 February 2008[''Les refugiés de N'djaména craignent toujours de rentrer chez eux'']
Cameroon-One, 15 February 2008 warning that a humanitarian crisis could turn into a humanitarian catastrophe in the absence of a robust response.[Craig Timberg]
The Washington Post
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, 6 February 2008
In 2009 and 2010 he worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
, where he denounced attacks by warring parties against civilians[''Congo Civilians Flee as Rwandan Rebels Attack Villages, UN Says''](_blank)
Bloomberg L.P.
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, 24 February 2009[Joe Bavier]
''Some Congo civilians return, others flee rebels''
, Reuters, 2 April 2009 and the use of rape as a weapon of war, referring to rape as a "pandemic" and "plague".Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. Since 2018, he has been the South Asia bureau chief of The New York Times based in New Delhi. From 2006-July 2017, he was East Africa bureau chief for ''The Times' ...
''Rapes Are Again Reported in Eastern Congo''
The New York Times
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, 25 February 2011 He denounced the brutality of expulsions between the DRC and Angola
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, alleging that both countries were committing rapes of illegal immigrants who were being deported,[ Barry Bearak]
''Congo and Angola Agree to End Expulsions''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
, 13 October 2009[''ANGOLA-DRC: Retaliatory expulsions reach a new peak''](_blank)
IRIN, 24 October 2009 and urging them to investigate the allegations on both sides of the border.[''Angola urged to investigate Congo expulsion rapes''](_blank)
BBC, 29 October 2010Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. Since 2018, he has been the South Asia bureau chief of The New York Times based in New Delhi. From 2006-July 2017, he was East Africa bureau chief for ''The Times' ...
''Hundreds Were Raped on Congo-Angola Border''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
, 5 November 2010[''UN: Mass rapes on Angola-DRC border''](_blank)
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...
, 6 November 2010 In response to Giuliano's criticism about the extent of rape in the country, Congo's Government spokesperson Lambert Mende
Lambert Mende Omalanga (born 11 february 1953) is the former minister of communications of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is best known for saying that an overturned fuel truck that exploded and killed 230 people was trying to overtake a ...
dubbed him as "the rape spokesperson".[ Bienvenu Kaforo, ''Un phenomène sous contrôle'', ]Le Potentiel
''Le Potentiel'' is a Democratic Republic of the Congo daily newspaper published by award-winning journalist Modeste Mutinga. The Committee to Protect Journalists described it as "the only independent daily newspaper in the war-torn Democratic Rep ...
, 2 November 2010
In 2010 he was UN spokesperson for the 2010 Pakistan floods.Lyse Doucet
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''UN calls for more aid for flood-hit Pakistan''
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