THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MISSION
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS TO COTE D'IVOIRE AND HEAD OF UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN COTE D'IVOIRE (UNOCI)
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Simon MUNZU
Deputy Special Representative of UN Secretary-General for
Côte d'Ivoire (DSRSG)
United Nations Secretary-general, Ban
Ki-moon, announced on 7 October 2014, the appointment of Simon Munzu
of Cameroon as his Deputy Special Representative of the United
Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI).
Mr. Munzu brings to this position a wealth of political, human
rights, legal, academic and management experience from a career
spanning more than 30 years. He joined the United Nations as a
United Nations Volunteer in 1995, and served the Organization until
2012 in various capacities in Rwanda, New York, Côte d'Ivoire and
the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He has served as Acting Head of the United Nations Human Rights
Field Operation in Rwanda, Senior Policy Adviser with the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Representative of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Côte d'Ivoire and
Chief of UNOCI's Human Rights Division and Director of Political
Affairs in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Munzu spent more than 13
years in academia as a senior lecturer in law in Cameroon, and is
currently an advocate and member of the Cameroon Bar Association.
Mr. Munzu holds a degree in law from the University of London, as
well as a doctorate degree in law from the University of Cambridge,
and has been a Member of the Bar in England since 1973.
Born in 1949, Mr. Munzu is married and has four children.
M'Baye Babacar Cissé
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS M'BAYE BABACAR CISSÉ
OF SENEGAL DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN
CÔTE D'IVOIRE
United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed M'Baye Babacar Cissé of Senegal
as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Operation in
Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident
Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative.
He will replace Ndolamb
Ngokwey of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Secretary-General is
grateful for Mr. Ngokwey's dedicated service during his tenure in Côte
d'Ivoire and for his contribution to the improved coordination of the United
Nations system in that country.
Mr. Cissé brings to his new position a wealth of experience in
development and humanitarian assistance in Africa, including on regional
initiatives and inter-agency processes. He has served with the United
Nations since 1980, most recently as Deputy Assistant Administrator and
Deputy Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Africa at UNDP.
He has also served as Resident Representative and Resident
Coordinator in Burkina Faso and as UNDP Country Director in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. He has held a number of senior positions at the UNDP
Headquarters in New York. Prior to that, Mr. Cissé has undertaken a number
of assignments with UNDP, including in Rwanda, Benin, Madagascar and
Senegal.
Mr. Cissé holds a master's degree in finance and fiscal management
and a diploma in management and applied economics from the University of
Paris IX Dauphine, France.
Born in 1954, Mr. Cissé is married and has two children.
General Didier L'Hote
Commander of UNOCI Force
Major General Didier L'Hôte is
the Force Commander of the United Nations Operation in Côte
d'Ivoire (UNOCI), having been appointed by the UN Secretary
General, Ban Ki-Moon on the 8th June 2015.
Having commenced his military education at the Special Military
School in Saint-Cyr in 1980, Major General L'Hôte was appointed
as an officer of the Infantry Marines in September 1982. During
his career, he served in a wide range of appointments in the
French Armed Forces.
These appointments included Company Commander and later as Chief
of Operations of the 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment. His
Command experience also extends to Commanding Officer of the 2nd
Marine Infantry Regiment and prior to joining UNOCI, he served
as Deputy to the Commanding General at the Land Task Force based
in Marseille which is one of two French Task Forces.
Major General L'Hôte has extensive overseas experience and has
served in fifteen overseas operations in Europe, Asia and
especially in Africa both in a national and international
context. His experience in Africa includes service in Central
Africa Republic, Chad, Rwanda, Tanzania and Congo. He has also
had a number of tours of duty to the Balkans with service
including Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia Herzegovina. He has
served in the Middle East to include Lebanon and Iraq and at the
end of 2011 he served as the Commander of the French Contingent
in Afghanistan for 8 months.
He has previously completed two tours of duty in Côte d'Ivoire,
from 1986 to 1988 as a Platoon Commander and in 2003 as a
Battalion Commander. In March 2014, he joined UNOCI as Deputy
Force Commander, a position he held for nearly 18 months before
taking up the appointment of Force Commander.
Major General L' L'Hôte graduated from Saint Cyr with an
Engineering Degree and also holds a Master in Defence Management
and International Relations. He is a graduate of the Advanced
War College in Paris and has completed a number of international
studies including the Senior Course in the NATO Defence College
in Rome, Italy and the Higher Command and Staff Course in
Shrivenham in the United Kingdom.
Police Commissioner
Nshimiyimana Vianney
Head of the Police Component of the
UNOCI
Police
Commissioner NSHIMIYIMANA Vianney, of Rwandan nationality, is the
Head of the Police Component (HOPC) of the UN Operation in Côte
d'Ivoire (UNOCI) since 06 February 2014.
Mr. NSHIMIYIMANA held the position of Commander of the Rwanda
National Police College and previously, Commander of Road Traffic
Security unit before joining the Mission.
He earned a master's degree in Peace Studies and Conflict
Resolution, at the National University of Rwanda (NUR). He also
earned a degree in Law in the same university.
He joined the Rwandan Army in 1990, Gendarmerie in 1994, and then
the Police in 2000, when Rwanda was undergoing Security Sector
Reform, by establishing the Police.
He has commanded the Rwandan contingent in UNMIL, as well as in
MINUSTAH, where he worked along with several Ivorian police
officers, hence establishing good working relationship with them.
Consequently, that experience has become an asset in his current
functions as HOPC of UNOCI.
Mr. NSHIMIYIMANA was born on 18 March 1965, in Cibitoke, Rwanda. He
is married and father of four children.