Washington is pressing to assign the diplomat Kenneth Gluck as deputy head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya to replace Rezidon Zeninga, who is due to leave office next January, the French Africa Intelligence website has reported.
Gluck served as deputy head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic from 2017 to 2019.
He was also part of the UN mission in Yemen and worked with Doctors Without Borders in Somalia and Sudan.
As the publisher puts it, the position of deputy head of the UNSMIL has become, in recent years, a strategic position for Washington to enable it to keep a close eye on the Libyan file.
This position was recently occupied by US diplomat Stephanie Williams, who served as Acting Head of Mission before being appointed as Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Libya.
