Burundi last month nominated former Senegalese President Macky Sall to succeed United Nations Secretary‑General Antonio Guterres , whose second and final term ends on December 31, 2026. In ​his vision statement for the role, Sall said the UN needed to be reformed, streamlined and modernized. But Senegal said in a diplomatic note to the African Union (AU) that it "has not, at any stage, endorsed" the application, and that it is not "associated with the relative initiative undertaken by the