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Mohamed Askia Toure

High Commissioner for Refugees in Côte d’Ivoire

Mohamed Askia Toure serves as the Representative of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Côte d’Ivoire. A graduate of the University of Reims, he is a specialist in international law and in the defense of human rights. He entered the United Nations in 1990 as the Deputy Head of Delegation in South Africa during the transitional period after the end of the apartheid regime. He later served in the Legal Department of the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, and subsequently in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Algeria, and most recently in Guinea.

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