United Nations Secretary-General General António Guterres Thursday appointed Lieutenant General Frank Mushyo Kamanzi of Rwanda as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

He succeeds Kenyan Lt-Gen Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki, who was sacked as force commander in November last year.

 Lieutenant General Kamanzi brings to the position more than 28 years of national and international military experience, as well as command and staff experience.

A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Lt-Gen Kamanzi served as force commander of the UN mission in Sudan's Darfur region (UNAMID).

Gen. Kamanzi has a Master’s degree in national security strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Makerere University in Kampala.

He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji, Nigeria, and the Army Command College in Nanjing, China. He was born in Uganda in 1964.

Photo: UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres/UN