Coumba Ceesay-Marenah

Coumba Ceesay-Marenah (also Kumba Ceesay-Marenah ) is a Gambian politician.

Life

Coumba Ceesay-Marenah obtained a Masters Degree in Rural Social Development from the University of Reading (UK ).

She started working in the Gambian civil service in 1970. In 1976 she moved to the Government Department of Community Development and started a program for women's issues, which she also led. She moved to the National Women's Bureau in 1984. From 1987 she was vice chairman of the bureau, having previously been press officer.

In 1995 she was appointed Secretary of State for Health, Social Welfare and Women's Affairs by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) . After she could no longer cooperate with the military government, she was dismissed from office. Nyimasata Sanneh-Bojang was succeeded as Minister .

She left the country and worked from now for the development program of the United Nations ( United Nations Development Program , UNDP), among others, to the Maldives , in southern Sudan and in Ethiopia .

In 1987 she was also a founding member of the FEMNET organization , of which she was Vice President until 1998, and was involved in the legal aid organization Results. In 2017 she took over the management of the Africa region at the Global Prosperity and Peace Initiative (GPPI).

Coumba Ceesay-Marenah is married and has three birth children and three adopted children.

Web links

• Profile ( Memento from February 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on people.africadatabase.org/
• Portrait of Ceesay-Marenah