Mamadou Tangara

Mamadou Tangara with his Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet (2011)

Mamadou Tangara (born June 4, 1965 in Bathurst, today Banjul ) is a politician and diplomat of the West African state of Gambia , who served several times as a minister and between 2013 and 2016 permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations and held this office again in 2017-2018. He has been Gambian Foreign Minister again since June 29, 2018.

Life

Tangara began his academic education at the Université Mohamed I in Oujda (Morocco) with the acquisition of a certificate. At the same university in 1992 the Bachelor of Arts and 1993 the Bachelor of Arts Honors . From 1998 to 1999 he graduated from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium with a Diplôme d'études spécialisées in demography. From 1999 to 2000 he obtained the Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA-Mphil) in the semiology of cultural interaction at the Université de Limoges (France) . From 2006 to 2007 he received his doctorate from the Université de Limoges.

Further stations in his education were various certificates in France, Belgium, Tanzania, Senegal and Gambia from 1994 to 2009.

In his professional career, among other things, he was a teacher at the Gambia College from 1994 to 2000, then from a lecturer for French language at the University of Gambia .

4 February 2010 Tangara was by President Yahya Jammeh to the Cabinet as Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology ( English Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology ) to succeed Crispin Gray-Johnson called and on 10 February 2010 in the Official sworn in. On 7 June 2010 he joined the department and was Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Auslandsgambier ( English Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad ), replacing Ousman Jammeh . In April 2012 he was appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Auslandsgambier of Mambury Njie detached and then took over at first for a short time, the Office of the Minister of Fisheries, Water Resources and Affairs of the National Assembly ( English Minister for Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters ). On August 23, 2012, he was again Foreign Minister, but replaced on December 1, 2012 by Susan Waffa-Ogoo . He was then again Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology between December 2012 and September 2013.

In September 2013 Tangara took over the post of Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations for the first time, and on September 18, 2013 he presented his letter of accreditation to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon . He held this office until 2016. In May 2017 he was again appointed Permanent Representative and Ambassador of the Seychelles to the United Nations and on May 3, 2017 he presented his letter of accreditation to UN Secretary General António Guterres .

With a larger reshuffle under President Adama Barrow on June 29, 2018 Tangara was taken to Cabinet called and as Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad (his English Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad ) used.

family

Tangara is married and has five children.

Awards

Tangara received the Order of the Republic of The Gambia with the expression Member (MRG) in February 2010.

Web links

Commons : Mamadou Tangara - Collection of images, videos and audio files

New Permanent Representative of Gambia Presents Credentials on the United Nations homepage (September 18, 2013)
New Permanent Representative of Gambia Presents Credentials on the homepage of the United Nations (May 3, 2017)
Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mamadou Tangara CV on the State House website , accessed June 2010
^ Message from the State House dated February 10, 2010: Six New Cabinet Ministers Sworn-In. (No longer available online.) In: statehouse.gm. February 8, 2010, archived from the original ; Retrieved June 30, 2010 .
↑ June 7, 2010 (rulers.org)
↑ Foreign Ministers: Gambia in rulers.org
↑ 23 August 2012 (rulers.org)
↑ Gambia: Updated Version of the Cabinet Reshuffle Press Release! In: Freedom Newspaper. June 29, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019 .
↑ Dr Tangara thanks President Jammeh. In: The Daily Observer . February 25, 2010, archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Ousman Jammeh	Foreign Minister of Gambia 2010–2012	Mambury Njie

personal data
SURNAME	Tangara, Mamadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Banjul

[cv-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mamadou Tangara CV on the State House website , accessed June 2010

[2] Message from the State House dated February 10, 2010: Six New Cabinet Ministers Sworn-In. (No longer available online.) In: statehouse.gm. February 8, 2010, archived from the original ; Retrieved June 30, 2010 .

[3] June 7, 2010 (rulers.org)

[4] Foreign Ministers: Gambia in rulers.org

[5] 23 August 2012 (rulers.org)

[freedomnewspaper20180629-6] Gambia: Updated Version of the Cabinet Reshuffle Press Release! In: Freedom Newspaper. June 29, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019 .

[7] Dr Tangara thanks President Jammeh. In: The Daily Observer . February 25, 2010, archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 .