NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SIERRA LEONE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SIERRA LEONE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19991021 Biographical Note(Based on information received from Protocol and Liaison Service.)
Ibrahim MBaba Kamara, the new Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Prior to his appointment, from 1996, Mr. Kamara was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, and Permanent Representative to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). From 1994 to 1996, he was National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party of Sierra Leone, and from 1992 to 1995, he was General Manager of OSTENACO Mining and Trading Company.
Prior to that, he was a Member of Parliament for Kambia (1985-1992), Minister of Social Welfare and Rural Development (1985), Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning (1979-1985), and Minister of Lands (1978-1979). Until that appointment, he worked as Staff Surveyor and Parliamentary Special Assistant in Sierra Leone.
In 1998, Mr. Kamara was leader of the OAU team to Angola and Zambia to assess the situation of refugees and internally displaced persons in the two countries. In the same year, he was the leader of Sierra Leones delegation to the OAU during the ministerial conference on refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Khartoum. After that, he represented Sierra Leone as observer to the OAU during the summit of the Central Organ of the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution in Burkina Faso.
Mr. Kamara obtained his Land Surveying Sciences degree from North East London Polytechnic (University of East London) in 1976.
Born in Sierra Leone in 1948, he is married and has four children.
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