Andrew Kiogora named U.N Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia
United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has appointed Kenya’s Andrew Kiogora Mbogori the UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia.
This comes as a lot of Ethiopians face displacement owing to the ongoing conflict between the country’s military and the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF).
Mbogori is a long serving UN diplomat with career spanning for 30 years with United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR.
He has served as UNHCR representative in Bangladesh where the agency was responding to assistance to over 1 million Rohingya refugees escaping from Myanmar and prior to that he served as Deputy Director for United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in preparing for return of Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees prior to that countries independence, before taking up the same role in Darfur region of Sudan to lead in the humanitarian response for more than 2 million internally displaced persons and refugees from South Sudan.
He is currently in charge of UNHCR’s global emergencies based in Geneva Switzerland and has also served in senior leadership position in Liberia, Sierra leone, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and the Gambia.
Prior to this appointment he was the Principal Emergency Situation Coordinator for Tigray Emergency in Ethiopia and acting Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator .
Mbogori holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Master’s in Development studies
