THE United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ronald Kayanja of Uganda as the Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Lagos, Nigeria. 

Prior to this appointment, Kayanja, who assumed office on April 1, has held the position of UNESCO Adviser for Communications and Information in West Africa, covering Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo working on media, communication and the use of ICTs for development in those countries since November 2011. 

In this role, he has supported capacity building of journalists, promotion of press freedom and safety of journalists, in addition to policy dialogue with member-states on the use of community media.

Most recently, he led UNESCO’s response to the Ebola crisis in Liberia and Sierra Leone through the use of community media.