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UN chief appoints new commander for peacekeeping force in South Sudan NEW YORK (7 Apr.) United Nations Secretary-General General António Guterres Thursday appointed Lieutenant General Frank Mushyo Kamanzi of Rwanda as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). He succeeds Kenyan Lt-Gen Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki, who was sacked as force commander in November last year. Lieutenant General Kamanzi brings to the position more than 28 years of national and international military experience, as well as command and staff experience. A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Lt-Gen Kamanzi served as force commander of the UN mission in Sudan's Darfur region (UNAMID).Gen. Kamanzi has a Master’s degree in national security strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Makerere University in Kampala.He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji, Nigeria, and the Army Command College in Nanjing, China. He was born in Uganda in 1964. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oo_zpk8JxFbLUGvMu%3DOqigF7XBZfruOc000FPJecrhquQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
