The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities,is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide. Its work includes developing national healthcare strategies and protocols,increasing access to birth control,and leading campaigns against child marriage,gender-based violence,obstetric fistula,and female genital mutilation.
SOS Children's Villages UK,is an international children's charity based in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. It is part of the international federation SOS Children's Villages –the largest international charity dedicated to the care of children who have lost parental care.
SOS Children's Villages is an independent,non-governmental,nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Innsbruck,Austria. The organization provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to families facing difficulties and supports children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it. The organization also protects their interests and rights around the world. Today,SOS Children's Villages is active in more than 130 countries and territories worldwide.
Nafis Sadik was a Pakistani physician,Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General with additional responsibilities as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia,and former executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from 1987 to 2000. She retired from the post in December 2000.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is a South African politician and former United Nations official,who served as the Executive Director of UN Women with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Ermias Sahle Selassie is the only son of Prince Sahle Selassie of Ethiopia and Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam. He is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia,and furthermore of Dejazmach Habte Mariam Gebre-Igziabiher,also known as Kumsa Moroda who was the third and last Moti,or ruler,of the Welega kingdom also referred as the Leqa Neqamte state. Currently the prince is ninth in the line of succession to the vacant imperial throne.
Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe is an Ethiopian politician who served as prime minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018. He also previously served as deputy prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi from 2010 to 2012. After Meles' death in August 2012,Hailemariam succeeded him as prime minister,initially in an acting capacity. He was then elected as the chair of the EPRDF,the ruling party,on 15 September 2012. Hailemariam also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 2013 to 2014.
The United Nations Office at Nairobi in Nairobi,the capital of Kenya,is one of four major United Nations office sites where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence. Established in 1996,it is the UN's official headquarters in Africa.
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty,founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.
Mohamed Behi Yonis is a Somaliland-Canadian diplomat who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somaliland for two years. He worked for both African Union and the United Nations.
Babatunde Osotimehin was a Nigerian physician,who served as Minister of Health,and in 2011 became the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund,holding the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations,reappointed in August 2014 until his death. Osotimehin's interests were youth and gender,and he advocated for reproductive health and reproductive rights,particularly within the context of the HIV epidemic. One of his strengths was his reliance on data and evidence.
Winifred Byanyima,is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer,politician,human rights activist,feminist and diplomat. She is the executive director of UNAIDS,effective November 2019.
Sahle-Work Zewde is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat who is the president of Ethiopia since 2018,being the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.
Bunmi Makinwa is the Chief Executive Officer of AUNIQUEI,a private entrepreneurial initiative in communication for leadership. He is a leader in management,communication,and development. Previously,he was the Africa Regional Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA);Director of UNAIDS New York Office;Director and Representative of UNAIDS to the Africa Union Commission in Addis Ababa. He has worked for Family Health International (FHI),Programme for Appropriate Technology for Health (PATH) and World Health Organization. Makinwa was Nigeria's candidate for the post of Executive Director of UNFPA in 2010. He is currently the Chair of the Board of African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC).
Natalia Kanem is a medical doctor who currently serves as the Executive Director of UNFPA,the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. In this capacity,she is among the highest-ranking women at the United Nations and the first Latin American to head UNFPA.
Mustafa Muhumed Omar,also called Cagjar,is an Ethiopian politician who is the current president of the Somali Region and also the Deputy Chairman of the Somali Democratic Party,a member of Ethiopia’s newly formed Prosperity Party led by Abiy Ahmed,the sitting Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
Diene Keita is a former Minister for Cooperation and Africa Integration for Guinea. In June 2020,she was appointed deputy executive director for programmes,United Nations Population Fund,by Secretary-General of the United Nations,António Guterres. She has held leadership roles in United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),serving in several countries which includes;United States of America,Niger,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Haiti,Senegal,Ethiopia,Mauritania,Benin,Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.
The following lists events that happened with or in collaboration with the United Nations and its agencies in the year 2021.
The 1995 Ethiopian Federal Constitution formalizes an ethnic federalism law aimed at undermining long-standing ethnic imperial rule,reducing ethnic tensions,promoting regional autonomy,and upholding unqualified rights to self-determination and secession in a state with more than 80 different ethnic groups. But the constitution is divisive,both among Ethiopian nationalists who believe it undermines centralized authority and fuels interethnic conflict,and among ethnic federalists who fear that the development of its vague components could lead to authoritarian centralization or even the maintenance of minority ethnic hegemony. Parliamentary elections since 1995 have taken place every five years since enactment. All but one of these have resulted in government by members of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) political coalition,under three prime ministers. The EPRDF was under the effective control of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF),which represents a small ethnic minority. In 2019 the EPRDF,under Abiy,was dissolved and he inaugurated the pan-ethnic Prosperity Party which won the 2021 Ethiopian Election,returning him as prime minister. But both political entities were different kinds of responses to the ongoing tension between constitutional ethnic federalism and the Ethiopian state's authority. Over the same period,and all administrations,a range of major conflicts with ethnic roots have occurred or continued,and the press and availability of information have been controlled. There has also been dramatic economic growth and liberalization,which has itself been attributed to,and used to justify,authoritarian state policy.
Ervin Jose Massinga is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Ethiopia since 2023.
