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UNMEE deputy representative appointed

    NAIROBI

    The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a new deputy special representative for the UN mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE).

    The new deputy, Sissel Ekaas, a Norwegian national was previously the Director of the Gender and Population Division in the UN Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO's) Sustainable Development Department, according to UN News.

    Ekass would be based in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, and is expected to assume her new post by the end of November, UN News said.

    She will be one of two UNMEE deputy special representatives. The other deputy, Cheikh-Tidiane Gaye, is based in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

    UNMEE has been in the region since July 2000 to liase with Ethiopia and Eritrea, and to establish a mechanism to verify the ceasefire put in place after the two countries fought a two-year border war in the late 1990s. The conflict claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced many more.

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