Geneva : Former Iraqi president Barham Salih will become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN source told AFP on Friday, taking over an agency tackling swingeing budget cuts.

Salih will take over from Filippo Grandi who is leaving after 10 years in the post The President of Iraq, Barham Salih meets with UK Prime Minister, Theresa May (unseen) at 10 Downing Street on June ...

Geneva: Former Iraqi president Barham Salih will become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from January, a UN source told AFP on Friday. Salih was president of Iraq from 2018 to ...

Salih, who fled Saddam Hussein’s regime, campaigned for job on basis that he knows what it is like to be a refugee. Iraq's former president Barham Salih, originally from Sulaimaniyah, is on track to ...

Barham Salih’s long political career has included several senior positions in the Iraqi government and in the country’s autonomous Kurdistan region. (EPA Images pic) Former Iraqi president Barham ...

GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under Saddam Hussein, has been appointed the next U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, breaking the tradition of ...

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Former Iraqi president Barham Salih is set to become the next UN High Commissioner for Refugees, according to a document seen by AFP on yesterday, taking over an agency tackling swingeing budget cuts.

Former Iraqi President Barham Salih to Lead UN Refugee Agency By Emma Farge GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Barham Salih, a ‌former Iraqi president who fled persecution under ‌Saddam Hussein, has been ...

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended former Iraqi President Barham Salih to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, the first nomination from the Middle East ...

GENEVA (AP) — Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on track to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, according to a letter from U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres shared with The ...

Salih, 65, was president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022. He will replace Filippo Grandi, who is leaving at the end of December after 10 years as the UN refugees chief. A moderate and veteran Kurdish ...