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Posted on Saturday 5 December 2009 - 10:00
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Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Nigerian diplomat Ibrahim Gambari is to become the new head of the UN-Africa Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region from January 1, 2010, a spokeswoman for UN chief Ban Ki-moon said. Gambari was a former UN chief envoy to Myanmar and also former Nigerian foreign chief envoy to Darfur.
Ibrahim Gambari, 65, will replace Congolese diplomat Rodolphe Adada, a former foreign minister of the Republic of Congo, who stepped down in August, 2009.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon notified the Security Council about the appointment in a letter to Burkina Faso's U.N. Ambassador Michel Kafando, the current council president, UN chief Ban ki-moon spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.

The conflict in Darfur has been going on since 2003 when black African rebels begin to take arms against the Sudan government.

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