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Participants at the ICGLR Multifunctional Youth Forum (from left to right: Said Djinnit, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; Eugene Wamalwa, Kenya Minister of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs; and Zachary Muburi Muita, ICGLR Executive-Secretary.

Moussa Faki Mahamat, African Union Chairperson (left), and Said Djinnit, United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region

Participants at the Advisory Board meeting of the Women’s Platform for Peace and Security. From right to left: Sahle-Work Zewde, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi; Catherine Samba-Panza, former head of Central African Republic Transitional Government; Ndeye Bineta Diop, AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security; Said Djinnit, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; and Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, Uganda former Vice-President.

Participant at the Principal-level meeting on displacement. Nairobi, Kenya, 22 January 2018 (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)

Participants at the Coordination meeting between the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region and UN Resident Coordinators and Regional Directors of the Great Lakes region. Nairobi, Kenya, 22 January 2018 (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)

UN Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region (center) addressing the Peacebuilding Commission at the United Nations headquarters, New York, 27 November 2017 (Photo UN/Richard Bajornas)

UN Special Envoy Said Djinnit (left) and ICGLR Executive-Secretary Zachary Muburi-Muita meet in Bujumbura, 16 November 2017

Special Envoy Said Djinnit talking to the media after the 8th High-Level Meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism for the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 19 October 2017 (Photo UN/Penangnini Toure)