Former UNESCO head Amadou Mahtar Mbow dead at 103
Mbow, who served as director-general of UNESCO from 1974 to 1987, was a symbolic figure in Senegal and the wider African continent, where he championed the causes of education and peace.
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Senegalese intellectual and politician Amadou Mahtar Mbow, who headed the UN's cultural agency, UNESCO, for 13 years, has died at the age of