In 1998 she was an Information Officer in Sudan before she started two years of work with the
World Food Programme in 2000. Between 2015 and 2016 she was the Resident Coordinator and Representative of the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Namibia. In 2018 Gbeho became Deputy Joint Special Envoy for the
African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), taking over from
Bintou Keita. Gbeho was appointed Deputy Special Envoy by António Guterres at the end of 2020 for the United Nations Support Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), succeeding
Raisedon Zenenga from Zimbabwe, who became the Assistant UN Secretary-General coordinator of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). who was the target of an assassination attempt that killed others in 2019. She spent some of her time travelling to different areas in Somalia to understand their needs, although security limits her freedom. She completed her assignment in Somalia as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the
United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) in 2023. In January 2022 Gbeho attended the
Africa Union (AU) and
Federal Government of Somalia's Technical meeting in
Mogadishu, with international representatives including
Tiina Intelmann of the EU and
Kate Foster of the
UK. The 14 year long
AMISOM mission comes to an end in March 2022 and it will be a replaced by a Somali led operation African Union Transition Mission is Somalia (ATMIS). From 2023 to 2026 she served as Deputy Special Representative in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and Resident Coordinator in South Sudan, and was appointed to the role of
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the
United Nations Mission in South Sudan in 2026, following the death of
Nicholas Haysom/ == Personal life ==