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New UN envoy named for Somalia

A former UN deputy envoy to Afghanistan and now senior researcher at the British think tank Chatham House was appointed on Monday to be the new UN envoy for Somalia.

Michael Keating, 56, will succeed Nicolas Kay who will wrap up at the end of December after two and a half years in the post to support Somalia's political transition.

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