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 

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  

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 

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.