Vision for the UN

A Vision for the United Nations

The world has changed. The United Nations must change with it.

In 2026, 56 armed conflicts are active simultaneously — a historic record. The debt of developing countries has surpassed USD 100 trillion. CO₂ emissions continue to rise. And the Security Council, designed for 51 nations in 1945, governs a world of 193 States.

The architecture of 1945 no longer holds. The task is not to dismantle it, but to rebuild it.

2 bn

people live in areas affected by conflict

No Peace Without Development

Peace cannot be decreed by a ceasefire alone. It is built in schools, hospitals and marketplaces. As long as the international community treats security and development as two separate files, crises will keep recurring.

Integrate socio-economic indicators into United Nations early-warning systems
Grant regional organisations a genuine operational role in crisis management
Combat terrorism through a comprehensive approach: security response, addressing root causes and reintegration

permanent African seats on the Security Council, in 80 years

II.

A New World, A New Governance

1.4 billion Africans. Zero permanent seats. The Security Council is the last vestige of a bygone world order. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank still reflect the balance of power of 1945, not that of 2026.

Reform the Security Council to include permanent African seats
Rebuild the international financial architecture: IMF, World Bank, climate finance, sovereign debt
Open up multilateralism to civil society, the private sector and youth

37,000

staff at the Secretariat — more than the central administration of some States

III.

A United Nations That Works

The United Nations is weighed down by its own size. Overlapping mandates, redundant structures, procedures from another century. Every dollar absorbed by bureaucracy is a dollar that never reaches the field.

Streamline structures: eliminate duplication, simplify mandates
Modernise through digital means: transparency, digitisation of procedures, a results-driven culture
Ensure equity: geographic and gender representation at every level

Read the official vision statement (PDF, un.org)

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Why Macky Sall?

The office demands a rare profile: experience of the State, practice of the world, the reflex of dialogue and a culture of results. The record speaks.

12 years

Experience of the State

Twelve years as President of Senegal (2012-2024), after four decades of public service. Governing, arbitrating, holding course through crises: that discipline is not learned from books. In March 2024, he handed power peacefully to an elected opponent; Senegalese democracy emerged stronger.

2022-2023

The voice of a continent

As Chairperson of the African Union, he carried the common position of 55 states to the G7, the G20 and the United Nations. Under his impetus, the African Union's admission to the G20 was set in motion and sealed at the New Delhi summit in 2023. North-South dialogue is his craft.

2022

The mediation reflex

At the height of the war in Ukraine, he led a peace mission to Kyiv and Moscow on behalf of the African Union to loosen the grip of the global food crisis. Talking to all sides, without fanfare, in the service of results: the method foreshadows the Secretary-General he proposes to be, a facilitator and bridge-builder.

100+

A culture of results

More than one hundred international summits, the 2021 Paris Summit on financing African economies, the confidence of international financial institutions. His vision for the UN follows from it: streamline, simplify, optimize, for an Organization that delivers results governments can defend before their citizens.

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