Ismael Mateus
Ismael Mateus is Secretary General of the Union of Angolan Journalists (SJA). He has worked as editor in chief for media outlets in Angola and writes regularly in the independent press.
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Jason Matus
Jason Matus has been working in southern Sudan since 1994. He was an observer for the US Government at the Three Areas peace talks and participated in the Joint Assessment Mission for the Three Areas. He continues to be involved in southern Sudan as an advisor to USAID.
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Martin Mansergh
Martin Mansergh is a member of Fianna Fáil. He was special adviser to the Taoiseach 1987–94 and since 1997, and head of research for Fianna Fáil 1981–87 and 1994–97.
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Elmar Mammadyarov
Elmar Mammadyarov has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2004. A graduate of the Kiev State University, the USSR Diplomatic Academy and the Centre for Foreign Policy Development at Brown University, he has previously served in Azerbaijan’s diplomatic missions to the United Nations, United States and Italy.
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Taj es-Sir Mahjoub
Dr Taj es-Sir Mahjoub is a former government minister who was head of the Government of Sudan’s wealth-sharing committee in the Naivasha peace talks and is now co-chairman of the Joint National Transition Team and Secretary-General of the National Council for Strategic Planning.
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As-Sadiq al-Mahdi
As-Sadiq Al-Mahdi is Imam of the Islamic Ansar sect and has been Chairman of the Umma Party since 1964. He served as elected Prime Minister of Sudan 1966-67 and again 1986-89, when he was ousted in a bloodless military coup.
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Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali
Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali is Associate Professor of African History at Howard University, Washington, DC, and at Agostinho Neto University in Luanda. He was raised and educated in Congo-Brazzaville and received his PhD from Université Paris VII. His two-volume history of the MPLA was published in Luanda in 2001.
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Mahboub M. Maalim
HE Engineer Mahboub M. Maalim is Executive Secretary of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
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Volker Jacoby
Volker Jacoby worked as Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for the Nagorny Karabakh conflict 1998-99. In 1999 he completed a PhD on the politics of Armenia, and from 1999-2004 held different positions within the OSCE Mission to Georgia.
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Filomeno Vieira Lopes
Filomeno Vieira Lopes is a professional economist as well as a political activist. He is Foreign Relations Secretary and a Parliamentary and Civic Secretary of the Front for Democracy (FpD) and is involved in a broad range of civil society initiatives.
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