Fatoumata Kaba

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Fatoumata Kaba Sidibé (born 1969?[1]) is a Guinean diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2006.

Kaba was educated in the United States, attending the Woodrow Wilson High School and Montgomery College in Maryland and graduating with a degree in journalism. She returned to Guinea in 1992, working for Guinean Radio and Television and CNN; in 1998, she become a correspondent for Reuters news agency. Subsequently she worked for the Communications Unit of the United Nations Development Programme before joining the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2000.[1]

On February 25, 2002, Kaba was appointed as the delegate of the UNHCR for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, and Uganda; she was based in Kinshasa.[1] She was then Guinea's ambassador to Nigeria before being appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in a cabinet reshuffle on March 8, 2005.[2] She remained in that post until May 2006.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "Fatoumata Kaba.", Jeuneafrique.com, March 4, 2002 (French).
  2. ^ Cheikh Yérim Seck, "Lifting gouvernemental", Jeuneafrique.com, March 13, 2005 (French).
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Preceded by
Mamady Condé		 Foreign Minister of Guinea
2005-2006		 Succeeded by
Mamady Condé