{"id":117062,"date":"2026-04-13T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:48:51","slug":"un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan","title":{"rendered":"UN Names Ghana\u2019S Anita Gbeho Head of Mission in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>United Nations Secretary-General Anto\u0301nio Guterres has appointed Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho as his new Special Representative for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>She succeeds the late Mr. Nicholas Haysom of South Africa, whose dedication and leadership in advancing peace within the UN system was acknowledged by the Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gbeho brings to the role more than 25 years of experience in political, development and humanitarian affairs, having served in diverse conflict and post-conflict settings including Angola, Cambodia, Iraq, Namibia, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2024, she has been Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in UNMISS, as well as Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Coordinator in South Sudan, where she periodically acted as Officer-in-Charge.<\/p>\n<p>Her previous appointments include Deputy Special Representative (Political) in the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) from 2021 to 2023, Deputy Joint Special Representative of the AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) from 2018 to 2020, and Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Namibia from 2015 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Ms, Gbeho also served as Chief of Section in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York, and Head of Office for OCHA in Somalia and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and African Studies from the State University of New York, USA, and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Ghana, Legon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Ghana<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. United Nations Secretary-General Anto\u0301nio Guterres has appointed Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho as his new Special Representative for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). She succeeds the late Mr. Nicholas Haysom of South Africa, whose dedication and leadership in advancing peace within the UN system was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":117061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-117062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN Names Ghana\u2019S Anita Gbeho Head of Mission in South Sudan - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United Nations Secretary-General Anto\u0301nio Guterres has appointed Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho as his new Special Representati ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UN Names Ghana\u2019S Anita Gbeho Head of Mission in South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"United Nations Secretary-General Anto\u0301nio Guterres has appointed Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho as his new Special Representati ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-13T10:10:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-13T10:48:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2026\/04\/sm_1776064514.324107.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UN Names Ghana\u2019S Anita Gbeho Head of Mission in South Sudan\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-13T10:10:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-13T10:48:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan\"},\"wordCount\":254,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2026\/04\/sm_1776064514.324107.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/un-names-ghanas-anita-gbeho-head-of-mission-in-south-sudan\",\"name\":\"UN Names Ghana\u2019S Anita Gbeho Head of Mission in South Sudan - 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