Souleymane Beye is a Senegalese official with the United Nations

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Beye has spent most of his life in Rome

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 and London

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The first part of his career was with the World Food Programme

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, for which he worked in Guinea

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 and the Sudan

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In 2005, he joined the United Nations

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

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 (OCHA), and became head of the OCHA office in Bangui

Bangui

-Law and government:Bangui is an autonomous commune of the Central African Republic. With an area of 67 km², it is by far the smallest high-level administrative division of the CAR in area but the highest in population...

, Central African Republic

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, until December 2006.

In 2008 he took on the position as Humanitarian Affairs Officer with the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi

Burundi

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He is the son of Gora Beye, United Nations Retiree (Head, FAO. Research and Technology Development Service, Rome) and author of Impact of Foreign Assistance on Institutional Development of National Agricultural Research Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.