Swedish diplomat Johan Borgstam is to become the European Union’s new Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region. A written procedure to approve his appointment was launched on Wednesday 24 July by the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (‘Coreper’), a source close to the matter told Agence Europe.
Mr Borgstam has been head of the EU delegation to Ethiopia and Sweden’s ambassador to Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The choice of Mr Borgstam...