Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative for the Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA)

Parfait Onanga-Anyanga is a

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

ese

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who has been serving as Special Representative of

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to the

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and Head of the

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Office to the African Union (UNOAU) since 2022.

Education

Onanga-Anyanga holds a post graduate degree in political science from Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University and a master's degree in sociology from l’Université Omar Bongo in Libreville, Gabon.

Career

During his time in the diplomatic service of Gabon, Onanga-Anyanga served as First Counsellor for Disarmament and Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Gabon to the United Nations in New York. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga has extensive experience with the United Nations both in the field and at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Upon moving to the United Nations, he became the acting Secretary to the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee for Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC). From 1998 to 2004, he held a variety of political and managerial positions at the Preparatory Commission of the

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in Vienna and New York. Onanga-Anyanga served in the Secretary-General's cabinet as a Director from 2007 to 2012 under

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Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro. He also worked in the Office of the President of the General Assembly from 2004 to 2007, with

under former

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under former Swedish

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. Appointed by United Nations Secretary-General

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, Onanga-Anyanga served as the acting Special Representative for the

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(BNUB) from 2012 until 2014. He later held the position of UN Coordinator for the response to the

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crisis. From 2016 until 2019, Onanga-Anyanga served as the United Nations Special Representative for the

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and Head of the

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (also called MINUSCA, which is an initialism of its French name Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en C ...

(MINUSCA). From 2019 to 2022, Onanga-Anyanga served as for Guterres’ Special Envoy for the

Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...

.Secretary-General Appoints Parfait Onanga-Anyanga of Gabon Special Envoy for Horn of Africa

, press release of March 13, 2019.

References

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