South Africa: UN Peace Role for South African Nicholas 'fink' Haysom

Sixty-two-year-old Nicholas Haysom, Nelson Mandela's former legal adviser, is the United Nation's new chief in Afghanistan. Popularly known as “Fink” to his friends, Haysom brings with him a wealth of experience as head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama).

Haysom, who has been deputy special representative since 2012, succeeds Jan Kubiš of Slovakia. Before his appointment by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his special representative in Afghanistan on 1 October, Haysom was Ban's political adviser in New York, and before that UN adviser to the constitutional negotiations in post-war Iraq.

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