Special Representative and Head of MINUSCA 

Parfait Onanga-Anyanga

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced, on January 07 2016, the appointment of Parfait Onanga-Anyanga (Gabon) as his Special Representative for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Mr. Onanga-Anyanga served as the Acting Special Representative for the Central African Republic and Head of MINUSCA since 16 August 2015, when he succeeded Babacar Gaye of Senegal, who served as the first Special Representative of the Secretary-General of MINUSCA.

Mr. Onanga-Anyanga brings with him extensive experience with the United Nations in conflict-affected areas, including in his role as the Coordinator of United Nations Headquarters Response to the Boko Haram crisis since January 2015, and previously as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Burundi and Head of the United Nations Office in Burundi, as well as Assistant-Secretary-General and System-Wide Senior Coordinator on Burundi (2012-2014).  

From 2007 to 2012, he was the Director of the Office of the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. Previously, Mr. Onanga-Anyanga was Special Adviser to the President of the sixtieth and sixty-first sessions of the General Assembly from 2005 to 2007 and served as the Chef de Cabinet to the President of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly in 2004.

Mr. Onanga-Anyanga holds a post-graduate degree in political science from l’Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and a Master’s degree in sociology from l’Université Omar Bongo in Libreville.

Born in 1960, Mr. Onanga-Anyanga is married with three children.

Deputy Special Representative and Deputy Head of MINUSCA 

Kenneth Gluck

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 25 August the appointment of Kenneth Gluck of the United States of America as his Deputy Special Representative and Deputy Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Mr. Gluck succeeds Diane Corner of the United Kingdom, who completed her assignment end June 2017. The Secretary-General is grateful to Ms. Corner for her dedicated service and her steadfast political engagement during the start-up of the peacekeeping operation.

Mr. Gluck brings to the position several years of mediation and peacebuilding experience, including as Chief of Staff in the African Union-United Nations Joint Mediation Support Team (2008-2011), Principal Officer at the Office of the Special Adviser on Yemen (2013), Director and Deputy Head at the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (2013-2015) and most recently as Director and Deputy to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen (since 2015).

Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Gluck worked with several international non-governmental organizations providing humanitarian assistance in complex emergencies. Most notably, he served as Director of Operations for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from 2001 to 2006 and as MSF’s Head of Mission in the Russian Federation and Northern Caucasus (1999-2001), Somalia (2006) and Sudan (2007-2008).

Mr. Gluck holds a Bachelor degree in Sociology from Harvard University.

Born in 1962, he is married.

Force Commander 

 
Lieutenant-General Balla Keita 
 
Lieutenant-General Balla Keita (Senegal) was appointed on 11 February 2016 as Force Commander of the Multidimensional Integrated UN Stabilization Mission in CAR (MINUSCA).
 
Major-General Balla Keita brings to MINUSCA extensive leadership and operational experience.
Prior to his appointment, he served as Deputy Force Commander of the African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID). From 2007 to 2010, he served as Sector Commander in Darfur, and, as Chief Operating within MONUC (now MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2001. He had previously held various senior positions in other peacekeeping missions in Liberia and in Guinea-Bissau.
 
Major General Balla Keita also occupied key posits within the Senegalese army, including the position of Inspector General of Senegalese Armed Forces and of Chief of Staff for more than two years. He also has worked for the Senegalese Special Forces for more than fifteen years and brings in an experience of nearly 40 years in the service.  

Born on 25 April 1956 in Malilounda (Senegal), Major-General Balla Keita completed his military studies in France, USA and Germany.

He succeeds to Major General Martin Chomu Tumenta (Cameroon) who passed on 30 November 2015, from illness.

Acting Police Commissioner 

Colonel Ossama EL MOGHAZY,

On the 26th of December 2017, Colonel Ossama EL MOGHAZY of Egypt was appointed as the Deputy Head of the Police Component of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

The Colonel Ossama El MOGHAZY has occupied different positions of responsibility in his country’s administration, the Egyptian Central Security Forces. He was in charge of several specialized units, particularly in the field of security and public order.

Mr. Ossama has graduated from the Police Academy in 1991, he also served as Director of Police in the central and regional command headquarters and he actively took part in important projects among others the creation of new formula for training security forces. He also attended several high level specialized training at national and international level.

He participated in several peacekeeping missions in:

• UNMIBH (Bosnia & Herzegovina) 2000
• MINUSTAH (Haiti) 2007
• MONUSCO (Democratic Republic of Congo) 2011

Mr. Ossama brings with him extensive experience in the field of public order management and security, which constitute a major asset for MINUSCA mandate implementation which refers inter alia in reforming and reinforcing the operational capacities of the Central African Republic Internal Security Forces.