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UN
Diplomat Sana
Maboneza Dead,
A Great Man
From the Great
Lakes
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 3 --
Our least
favorite
stories to
write are
obituaries,
and this one
is
particularly
painful, so
we'll keep it
short. An able
diplomat at
the UN, Sana
Maboneza,
died on the
night of
December 1 in
a car crash on
Interstate-495
in Virginia.
He
covered the
Security
Council, the
C-34 committee
on
peacekeeping,
the election
of incoming
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres and
virtually
every other
issue at the
UN and beyond,
for example
Somali athlete
Samia Yusuf
Omar death in
the
Mediterranean,
here.
Sana
was present on
the UN's 38th
floor on
November 11 of
this year when
Rwanda's new
ambassador
Valentine
Rugwabiza had
the ceremonial
presentation
of credentials
with outgoing
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon.
But
Sana hadn't
drunk the UN
Kool-Aid, so
to speak: when
Ban and his
head of
communications
Cristina
Gallach had
Inner City
Press ousted
from the UN in
February, and
evicted in
April
(confined to
minders ever
since), Sana
spoke up. And
he was
interested in
things at the
beyond the
direct
interests of
his country --
which he
represented
ably. He will
be missed: the
world is
poorer without
him.
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