UN Chief Appoints New Representative for Libya - ENA English
UN Chief Appoints New Representative for Libya

Addis Ababa, January 25, 2025 (ENA)—United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Friday the appointment of Hanna Serwaa Tetteh of Ghana as the global body's new envoy to Libya.
Tetteh will also serve as head of UN support Mission in Libiya (UNSMIL).
"Tetteh brings to this position following her 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," UN said in a statement.
Tetteh, who has been Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's special representative to the Horn of Africa for the past two years.
She was also Guterres' special representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) from 2018 to 2020.
Before joining the UN, Tetteh served as Ghana's Foreign Minister from 2013 to 2017.
Libya has remained in turmoil since 2011, when longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi was ousted after four decades in power.
The country is currently governed by two rival administrations: the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in Tripoli, which controls the western part of the country, and the government of Osama Hammad, appointed by the parliament, which operates out of Benghazi and governs the eastern region and parts of the south.
Efforts led by the UN to hold parliamentary and presidential elections have repeatedly stalled, prolonging the country’s political deadlock and exacerbating the security situation in the oil-rich nation.