KABUL, April 3: The United Nations Population Fund or United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has appointed Bannet Ndyanabangi as its new representative for Afghanistan.
Ndyanabangi, a national of Uganda, met Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai and presented to him his credentials. The newly appointed UNFPA representative also provided comprehensive
information to the Deputy Foreign Minister about his organization’s plans, programs and new policies for Afghanistan.
Before his assignment to Afghanistan, Bannet Ndyanabangi was UNFPA’s Country Representative for Sierra Leone and Deputy Representative to the republic of South Sudan and Nigeria.
In addition to UNFPA, he has also worked in a number of other organizations in different capacities, including as Chief of Party of the USAID/MSH HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programme in Ethiopia and
Programme Manager for HIV/AIDS Care and Support at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in Arlington, Virginia. -NNI