{"id":69387,"date":"2016-05-07T01:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/un-secretary-general-appoints-modibo-toure-of-mali-as-his-special-representative-to-guinea-bissau\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T01:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:31:24","slug":"un-secretary-general-appoints-modibo-toure-of-mali-as-his-special-representative-to-guinea-bissau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-secretary-general-appoints-modibo-toure-of-mali-as-his-special-representative-to-guinea-bissau\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General appoints Modibo Toure of Mali as his Special Representative to Guinea-Bissau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> NEW YORK, United States of America, May 6, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Modibo Tour\u00e9 of Mali as his new Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tour\u00e9 replaces Miguel Trovoada of S\u00e3o Tome and Principe, who completed his assignment on 30 April 2016. \u00a0The Secretary-General is grateful for Mr. Trovoada\u2019s leadership and for the accomplishments of the Mission during his tenure at UNIOGBIS.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tour\u00e9 served as Special Adviser to the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, he was the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative ad interimof the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Kenya (2013).<\/p>\n<p>He worked in 2012 as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in the Central African Republic, and served as United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Chad and Ethiopia. He has held high-level positions in the African Development Bank and served as Minister of New Technologies, Telecommunications and Post Office in Mali.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tour\u00e9 holds a Master\u2019s degree in Business Administration from Vanderbilt University, United States, and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics from the Ecole nationale d\u2019administration in Mali. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1959, he is married and has three children.<\/p>\n<p>New York, 5 May 2016<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, United States of America, May 6, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Modibo Tour\u00e9 of Mali as his new Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).\u00a0 Mr. Tour\u00e9 replaces Miguel Trovoada of S\u00e3o Tome and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-69387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}