Tuti Faal

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Tuti Faal (also known as Tuti Faal Jammeh ; born in Kembujeh ) is a former first lady of the West African state of Gambia . As the wife of President Yahya Jammeh , she was first lady from 1994 until her divorce in 1998.

Life

Tuti Faal's family came from Mauritania . Faal worked for the Gambian communications company Gambia Telecommunications Company (GAMTEL).

Yahya Jammeh married Tuti Faal in September 1994, a few months after his successful coup. It was Jammeh's first marriage.

Tuti Faal spoke at the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing about the situation of women in Gambia. In October 1997 she traveled to Great Britain with her husband on a trip abroad.

Since she remained childless with marriage, Jammeh is said to have sent her to Saudi Arabia for gynecological examinations in 1998. He married Zineb Jammeh in December 1998 and divorced her a little later while Tuti Faal was still absent. After the divorce, Tuti Faal left the State House and initially settled in her hometown of Kembujeh .

She later spent two years in Mauritania before returning to Gambia in early 2006. The Gambian press reported that Jammeh had had a house built for her and that she visited there regularly. There was also talk of a renewed marriage to Jammeh.

In 2015 she applied for political asylum in the United States and lived in Seattle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Gambia's Former First Lady Is Seeking Political Asylum In The United States; As Jammeh's Fall Is Imminent! In: Freedom Newspaper. January 15, 2016, Retrieved September 2, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Madam Tuti Faal And Family Still Pledge Support for Jammeh The Daily Observer January 9, 2002
  3. ↑ Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates, Mr Steven J. Niven: Dictionary of African Biography . OUP USA, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5 ( google.de [accessed September 2, 2019]).
  4. ^ Gambia election: Candidates' profiles BBC News, October 17, 2001
  5. ↑ FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN - BEIJING, SEPTEMBER 4-15, 1995, SPEECH DELIVERED BY MRS. TUTI FAAL-JAMMEH, FIRST LADY OF THE GAMBIA 7 September 1995
  6. ↑ October 1997. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ A New Addition To The First Family Of Gambia The Daily Observer from July 6, 2000
  8. ^ A b President Jammeh Marries 20-Yr-Old Moroccan Girl Spice News Services dated December 21, 1998
  9. ↑ Is Yahya Jammeh cheating on First Lady Zeinab Suma Jammeh? dated July 22, 2007
  10. ↑ Jammeh Secretly remarried former First Lady Tuti Faal Jammeh ( Memento of 24 January 2010 at the Internet Archive ) Freedom Newspaper of 20 January 2010
personal data
SURNAME Faal, tuti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faal Jammeh, Tuti (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian first lady
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Kembujeh