I am going to engage in a delicate balancing act of writing the portrait of the chief, without giving the impression of heaping praises on him or underestimating his talents. Let me start from the beginning, when an announcement appeared on the UN website in which the UN Secretary General said he had appointed Niger diplomat Maman Sambo Sidikou to succeed Martin Kobler of Germany whose mandate was to end on 31st October 2015. The same note further said that the new Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DRC has served as chief of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) since October 2014.