Timor-Leste
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 15, 2014
Ameerah Haq, who will serve as vice chair of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s newly appointed high-level panel reviewing United Nations peace operations, has strong views on putting torn countries back together. Haq, a UN official about to retire after nearly…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 15, 2014
Until recently, José Ramos-Horta led the United Nations’ peace-building mission in Guinea-Bissau, stepping in a year and a half ago as the country reeled from a coup in 2012 and the UN’s former chief there, Joseph Mutaboba, quit his job…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Peace and Security
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 29, 2014
José Ramos-Horta, the United Nations special envoy for Guinea-Bissau in West Africa since January 2013 and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is leaving his post, he confirmed. Ramos-Horta, 64, will become chairman and chief executive of UBrainTV, an Internet…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 6, 2013
Late in September 1999, a quiet man whom the Indonesian military had painted as a fearsome terrorist turned up in my office at the United Nations, where he had come to help plan the future of a new country,…
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