Elizabeth Ya Eli Harding

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Elizabeth Ya Eli Harding (born March 23, 1956 ) is a Gambian diplomat. She was Gambia's High Commissioner in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2013 and then Ambassador there from 2013 to 2018 .

Life

She went to high school in Banjul . Harding completed her French studies in 1978, continued studying in Scotland and Canada, and earned a Masters degree from Glasgow Caledonian University in 1988 .

From 1976 she took on various positions for government bodies in Gambia. 2006/2007 she was Secretary General and head of the civil service ( English Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service ). In April 2007 she was appointed the first female Gambian High Commissioner.

On October 3, 2013, the Gambian government under Yahya Jammeh announced that it would leave the Commonwealth of Nations because it was a "neo-colonial institution". As a result, Harding's status changed to that of an ambassador.

In December 2014, she was heard as a witness in a trial against Gambian diplomats who had sold tax-free tobacco imported for personal use valued at several million pounds without tax. Harding said she knew nothing about it.

In December 2016, Harding and ten other Gambian ambassadors signed a letter to President Yahya Jammeh , who refused to accept the result of the lost presidential election on December 1 . Harding and eleven other ambassadors were dismissed in January 2017, but reinstated in office by President Adama Barrow in February 2017 .

On February 2, 2018, Gambia rejoined the Commonwealth under President Adama Barrow. Francis Blain succeeded Harding in office.

Harding has four children.

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b LE LETTERE CREDENZIALI DEGLI AMBASCIATORI DI: THAILANDIA, SEYCHELLES, NAMIBIA, GAMBIA, SURINAME, SINGAPORE, KUWAIT. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gambia - Diplomat Magazine. April 2, 2018, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Hassoum Ceesay: Gambian women: an introductory history . 1st edition. Fulladu Publishers, Gambia 2007, p. 88 .
  4. ^ Afua Hirsch: Gambia quits the Commonwealth. October 2, 2013, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ Agency: Diplomats who ran tax-free tobacconist from the Gambian embassy found guilty . December 8, 2014, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed November 11, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Gambia: Breaking News: Gambian Diplomats Call On Jammeh To Step Down - Freedom Newspaper . In: Freedom Newspaper . December 19, 2016 ( freedomnewspaper.com [accessed November 11, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Gambia's President Jammeh fires nine more ambassadors - SMBC GAMBIA. August 28, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Gambian ambassadors sacked by Jammeh reinstated | The Fatu Network . In: The Fatu Network . February 2, 2017 ( fatunetwork.net [accessed November 11, 2018]).
  9. ↑ PRESIDENT HONORS 58 PERSONALITIES ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated April 27, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statehouse.gm
personal data
SURNAME Harding, Elizabeth Ya Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1956