Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, former Ghanaian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has been appointed the special representative for Libya at the United Nations and the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
The UN president said on Friday that he had appointed Ghana’s Hanna Serwaa Tetteh as the organization’s next ambassador to Libya, after Senegal’s Abdoulaye Bathily, who resigned in April of last year.
The former Ghanaian foreign minister, who most recently served as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ special envoy to the Horn of Africa is the tenth individual to hold the delicate position of UNSMIL’s head. and special envoy since 2011.
According to the UN announcement, “Ms. Tetteh brings to this position decades of experience at the national, regional, and international levels, including most recently as the special envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa from 2022 until 2024. Prior to that, she was the special representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) from 2018 to 2020, having earlier served as Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi.
A post on the United Nations’ Facebook page in Ghana also read, “Congratulations to Ms. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana on her appointment by the United Nations Antonio Guterres as his Special Representative for Libya and the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Ms. Hanna Tetteh’s appointment is still pending UN Security Council endorsement. She has participated in peacebuilding initiatives, most prominently as a co-facilitator of the High-level Forum for the revival of the peace deal in South Sudan.