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Major-General (retired) Henry Anyidoho served as the Deputy Force commander and Chief of Staff for UNAMIR in Rwanda. He has also served in international peacekeeping operations in Lebanon, Liberia and Cambodia. Following his time in Rwanda, he was posted to the Ministry of Defense in Ghana. He served as the Chairman of the Ghana Telecom Board of Directors and is the author of the book, Guns over Kigali (1997).
Michael Barnett served as the political officer at the US Mission to the United Nations assigned to cover Rwanda in 1994. His 2003 book, Eyewitness to a Genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda, draws on his experiences from this period. Barnett is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at The George Washington’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC.
RFE/RL Strengthens Editorial Support, Welcomes News Executives Ilves, Sukhotski, Boehler
December 22, 2020
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WASHINGTON - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is pleased to announce that Andres Ilves will be returning to the U.S. international media organization as the Regional Director overseeing and providing support to RFE/RL’s language services for Iran, Afghanistan, and northwest Pakistan, effective February 1, 2021.
As he returns, Ilves brings an intimate understanding of RFE/RL’s work to a transformed, digital-first media company. This will be Ilves’ third tour with RFE/RL. From 1984-1989, he worked as a journalist and researcher with the first incarnation of Radio Free Afghanistan. He returned in 2002-2004, first as the director of the relaunched service to Afghanistan, and then as the first director of Radio Farda, at the time a joint RFE/RL-VOA project for the people of Iran.