Ramtane Lamamra (Arabic: رمطان لعمامرة; born 15 June 1952) is an Algerian diplomat who has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Personal Envoy for Sudan since 2023.
[1] Lamamra previously served as the African Union's Commissioner for Peace and Security from 2008 to 2013 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 2013 to 2017 and briefly in March 2019.
Lamamra was appointed as Algeria's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti, as well the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in 1989.
[2] Lamamra was appointed to the Algerian government as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 11 September 2013;[3][4] consequently he left his post as AU Commissioner for Peace and Security.
[6] On 5 October 2017, Lamamra was appointed by the Chairperson of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, as the High Representative for Silencing the Guns in Africa.