{"id":70652,"date":"2014-09-26T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=70652"},"modified":"2014-09-26T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T03:53:10","slug":"un-secretary-general-appoints-abdul-kamara-of-sierra-leone-as-deputy-joint-special-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=70652","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General appoints Abdul Kamara of Sierra Leone as Deputy Joint Special Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><b>SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ABDUL KAMARA OF SIERRA LEONE <\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><b>AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS DEPUTY JOINT SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN DARFUR<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">United Nations Secretary-General and African Union Commission Chairperson announced today the appointment of Abdul Kamara of Sierra Leone as Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union &#8211; United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Mr. Kamara succeeds Joseph Mutaboba of Rwanda, to whom the Secretary-General and the Commission Chairperson are grateful for his dedicated service during his tenure with UNAMID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Mr. Kamara brings to the position extensive experience following a distinguished career in the African Development Bank, having served as Resident Representative in the Sudan Country Office and Manager of the Research Division and Senior Agricultural Economist. Mr. Kamara also contributed to development policy research in East, West and Southern Africa in his capacity as Research Scientist at the International Water Management Institute in South Africa and Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Mr. Kamara holds a Ph.D.<b> <\/b>in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from the Institute of Rural Development of the Georg-August-University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Born in Tambiama, Sierra Leone, in 1963, he is married and has three children.<\/span><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">New York<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">25 September 2014<\/span><\/address>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS ABDUL KAMARA OF SIERRA LEONE AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS DEPUTY JOINT SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN DARFUR United Nations Secretary-General and African Union Commission Chairperson announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":48372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751,673],"tags":[19606,19607,4656],"class_list":["post-70652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","category-national-news","tag-abdul-kamara","tag-deputy-joint-special-representative-for-the-african-union","tag-unamid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}