Ebraima Manneh

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Ebraima Manneh ( also known as Ebou Manneh ; * 20th century in Banjul ) is a politician and diplomat in the West African state of Gambia . He has been the Gambian ambassador to Sierra Leone since mid-2018.

Life

After attending the Gambia High School , Manneh studied French language and literature from 1964 to 1967 at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar and at the University of Otago in New Zealand , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Language and Education from 1967 to 1971 acquired. He then worked in various ministries and government departments. He was politically active in the United Democratic Party UDP and was a senior administrative secretary in this party.

He worked for the Gambian diplomatic mission in Dakar and later in Brussels , where he also participated in the early negotiations for the establishment of the AKP group . He was also head of the mission of the African Groundnut Council (AGC) at the United Nations in Geneva and later became director of the European office in Brussels. Until his dissolution in 1987 he was the deputy executive secretary of the Senegalo-Gambia Permanent Secretariat , after which he returned to the civil service. He became State Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Affairs, Ministry of Women's Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, and finally the Ministry of Information and Tourism, from where, like most of his colleagues, he was removed from the military junta in 1994 . He then stayed often in the United States, studying management at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 2001 and living in exile in Raleigh , North Carolina since 2012 . In addition to many other activities in the diaspora, he was active as a writer and commented on the Gambian events on social media. Manneh was also involved in community activities, such as being a board member of the Association of NGOs (TANGO), general secretary of the Gambia Scout Council and general secretary of Pipeline Mosque .

On March 14, 2017 it was announced that Manneh had been appointed by President Adama Barrow to succeed Sheikh Omar Fye as Gambian Ambassador to the United States (effective March 7, 2017). On July 31, 2018, it was announced that Manneh will succeed Femi Peters as ambassador in Sierra Leone. Peters died in late January 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ebraima Manneh is Gambia's new ambassador to America - The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia. In: thepoint.gm. March 14, 2017, accessed March 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 'Don't See Only Tribal Loyalty' . In: KAIRO NEWS . May 23, 2014 ( kaironews.com ).
  3. ^ Manneh Appointed Gambia's US Ambassador . In: KAIRO NEWS . March 8, 2017 ( kaironews.com ).
  4. ↑ Ebraima Manneh is Gambia's new ambassador to Sierra Leone - The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia. In: thepoint.gm. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Manneh, Ebraima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manneh, Ebou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Banjul