Olusegun Obasanjo

=== Diplomacy ===
Obasanjo was appointed Special Envoy by UN Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] to the war-torn [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. He held separate meetings with DRC President [[Joseph Kabila]] and rebel leader [[Laurent Nkunda]].

During the Zimbabwean election of July 2013, Obasanjo headed a delegation of [[African Union]] election observers.<ref name="Election monitor head">{{cite news|title=Head of AU vote monitors Obasanjo arrives in Zimbabwe|url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/27/head-au-vote-monitors-obasanjo-arrives-in-zimbabwe/|access-date=3 August 2013|newspaper=Fox News|date=27 July 2013}}</ref>

In 2022, Obasanjo mediated [[Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement|peace talks]] between the [[Ethiopia]]n government and the [[TPLF|Tigray People's Liberation Front]] under the auspices of the [[African Union]], culminating in a ceasefire of the [[Tigray War]] on November 2, 2022.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ethiopia, Tigrayan Rebels Reach Truce in Two-Year Civil War|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethiopia-tigrayan-rebels-reach-truce-in-two-year-civil-war-11667418320|access-date=4 November 2022|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=4 November 2022}}</ref>