At
UN,
Ban's Hesitant
Shakeup Eyes
for Africa
Adviser
Candidates of
Senegal &
Egypt, Low
Energy is Key?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 21 --
As complaints
grow about the
slow pace and
lack of
transparency
of UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
second
term "shake
up," Inner
City Press has
learned of
names in
play for yet
another
position: the
long vacant
Special
Adviser on
Africa post,
held on part
time for years
despite
General
Assembly
admonitions.
Now
under
consideration
are Adama
Dieng, the
Senegalese
Registrar of
the
International
Criminal
Tribunal on
Rwanda -- and
Egypt's
current (and
Mubarak era)
Permanent
Representative,
Maged
Abdelaziz.
The latter
has a
difficulty of
not being from
sub Saharan
Africa. He has
long
sought a UN
post; one
insider told
Inner City
Press, "Let
him
replace Shaban
Shaban," a
fellow
Egyptian
leaving DGACM
after
Rio + 20 this
summer.
Not
only
Senegal, but
also the Obama
administration
are said to
have
weighed in for
Adama Dieng.
Meanwhile
skeptics
saying that
while the
Deputy
Secretary
General post
was once
"Susana
Malcorra's to
lose," now Ban
is seeking
"another
Latin, but
lower energy,
less of a
challenge."
Interviews for
various high
posts have
been
postponed,
either because
Under
Secretaries
General
being told to
leave want, in
fact, to stay,
or due to push
back from
powerful
member states
to get on the
short lists.
Ban
Ki-moon
typically is
heading out of
town, to
London then
Zambia and
Angola, His
first hiring
priority must
be an envoy to
Syria. But
after that?
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