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A global tragedy has hit close to home and the @UN is united in grief. The colleagues we lost in Sunday’s tragic air crash in Ethiopia shared a purpose: to serve the people of the world & make it a better place for all. We honour them by keeping their spirit of service alive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/africa/ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash-victims.html
Pius Adesanmi, a professor with the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, was among the victims from Canada, the university confirmed. Professor Adesanmi, who was also associated with the university’s English department, was a prominent public intellectual in his native Nigeria, where he regularly published political essays.
In 2010 he was awarded the Penguin Prize for African writing in the nonfiction category for a manuscript that was published the following year in the book “You’re Not a Country, Africa.”
“Pius was a towering figure in African and post-colonial scholarship and his sudden loss is a tragedy,” Benoit-Antoine Bacon, president and vice chancellor of the university, said in a statement.
Professor Adesanmi, who held both Canadian and Nigerian citizenship, was injured last year in a serious car crash in Nigeria. Before Sunday’s flight, he posted on Facebook a photo of himself holding his Canadian passport, along with the text of Psalm 139:9-10.
“If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,” the post read, “even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.”
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UN chief appoints Abiodun Bashua to investigate South Sudan mission
04/27/2016
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The Nigerian also served as Secretary to the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Conference on the Prevention of Violent Extremism at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, April 8, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Conference on the Prevention of Violent Extremism at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, April 8, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday announced the appointment of Abiodun Bashua of Nigeria to lead the special investigation into the attack against the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) which is protecting civilians at Malakal.
The announcement is contained in a statement made available in New York.
According to the statement, the special investigation will undertake detailed examination of the circumstances which led to the incident from Feb. 17 to Feb. 18, in which at least 25 civilians died and an additional 144 injured.
It added that the investigation would complement the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry announced on March 11, also conducting an in-depth investigation into the overall response of UNMISS in the attack.
Bashua recently concluded his assignment as Deputy Joint Special Representative of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, during which he also served as acting Joint Special Representative in 2014 and 2015.
In addition, he served at senior levels in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
He also served as Secretary to the Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/article/crisis-legitimacy
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Not bad for starters. But there is plenty more. The KFF ‘forgot' to hold elections before their term of office legally expired in March 2004. A few months later the KFF chairman, Maina Kariuki, the national treasurer Mohamed Hatimy and the secretary general Hussein Swaleh were charged in court with the theft of 55 million Kenyan shillings (more than $700,000) of KFF funds.
"Their lawyer defended them with the surprising argument that the money does not belong to the government or KFF but to Fifa — as if stealing funds from Fifa was acceptable," said Munro. "The case was sent for review and seven years later is still pending. Two of the three officials charged in court, Hatimy and Swaleh, are still national football officials." Hatimy, nonetheless, stood in the recent KFF elections and finished third.
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