Jainaba Bah

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Jainaba Bah (born October 25, 1963 ) is a Gambian activist, politician and diplomat.

Jainaba Bah with (from left to right) Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , President Putin and Presidential Advisor Yuri Ushakov on April 11, 2018.

Bah's father Sulayman Bah came from Timbi-Madina ( Guinea ) and worked as a cattle dealer in South Gambia and South West Senegal. Her parents lived in Farafenni . She got her name from her maternal grandmother, Jainabou.

In 1983 she graduated from St. Joseph's High School and then worked as a teacher at the Muslim High School (now the Muslim Senior Secondary School ). She later worked for the Gambia National Insurance Company (GNIC) in the shipping and life insurance sectors.

Towards the end of her school days, she began to be politically active and after graduating from school she joined the Gambian section of the underground movement Movement for Justice in Africa-Gambia (MOJA-G). At the age of twenty, she was arrested and tortured by security forces for involvement in MOJA-G and participation in the student magazine Organ of the Revolutionary Students . As a result, she fled to Sweden with her husband and son in the mid-1980s, where she has lived ever since.

She studied pharmacy for a year at Uppsala University and then biomedicine and health care at the Karolinska Institute , which she completed with a master's degree. She worked as a microbiologist at the university and was with Amnesty International .

In 2013 she co-organized a congress of the Gambian diaspora in Stockholm and was briefly representative of the Committee for the restoration of democracy in the Gambia (CORDEG), which she left in July 2014 after internal conflicts.

In April 2015 she joined the United Democratic Party (UDP). She supported the opposition to the government of President Yahya Jammeh , for example in fundraising for the Coalition in 2016 in the Gambia presidential elections in 2016 , which the opposition won.

In May 2017 she was appointed Gambian Ambassador to Russia. This is said to have happened at the request of the UDP party leader Ousainou Darboe , who was initially vice-president under President Adama Barrow . After Darboe had to give up his ministerial offices in 2018/2019, Bah's two-year contract was initially not extended in mid-May 2019. At the end of May, the government announced an extension of her deployment so that she continues to work as an ambassador.

She is married to (Momodou) Sarjo Jallow , who held various ministerial offices in Gambia and was ambassador to Ethiopia , and they have four children with him. In 2008 her husband married another woman , Mamie / Mammy Ngum.

Web links

Commons : Jainaba Bah  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maafanta.com - JainababahBreakingOmerta. January 20, 2013, accessed on January 11, 2019 : “It was in the wee hrs of an early October month. The year was 1983.… I was 19 years old. I would turn 20 by the end of the same month. "
  2. ↑ Jainaba Bah (Märsta, 55 år) - Merinfo.se. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Maafanta.com - JainabaBahBreakingOmertaIV. February 11, 2013, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Maafanta.com - JainababahBreakingOmerta. January 20, 2013, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Maafanta.com - JainabaBahBreakingOmerta3. July 12, 2013, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ On Moja-G and Jainaba Bah's historical anecdote (Part 1) - The Standard Newspaper. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ "Försvinnanden" inför val i Gambia. Retrieved January 12, 2019 (Swedish).
  8. ↑ Maafanta.com - JainabaBahInaNutshell. January 26, 2013, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b c GAMBIA: JAINABA BAH APPOINTED AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 'Don't Spread Lies About Those Fighting With You'. July 2, 2014, Retrieved January 12, 2019 (UK English).
  11. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: BREAKING NEWS-ANOTHER BATCH OF UDP AMBASSADORS HAVE BEEN DROPPED OFF FROM PRES. BARROW'S BUS! In: Freedom Newspaper. May 17, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2019 (American English).
  12. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: BREAKING NEWS-GAMBIAN GOV'T RESCINDS MOVE TO RECALL THE UDP HANDPICKED AMBASSADOR MRS. JAINABA BAH FROM RUSSIA; AS BEHIND THE SCENE LOBBYING TO STAY IN BARROW'S BUS IS UNDERWAY! In: Freedom Newspaper. May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (American English).
  13. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Breaking News: Foreign Affairs Minister Njie out; Sarjo Jallow In! In: Freedom Newspaper. August 24, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2019 (American English).
  14. ↑ Alhagie Jobe: Abdoulie Njie, Puye Jobarteh And Others Named In Sarjo Jallow's Disappearance. In: The Fatu Network. September 10, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2019 (American English).
  15. ↑ »BREAKING NEWS: EX- Minister's Wife Clarifies !! Jainaba Bah Appeals For Calm Among Family Members !! - Blogger News Network. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bah, Jainaba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian activist, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1963