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Frances D. Cook
Frances Dee Cook (born September 7, 1945, Charleston, West Virginia) was a career Foreign Service Officer who was the US Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi from 1980–1983, Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, 1989–1993 and she was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman on December 28, 1995. As Ambassador to Oman and Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, she was the first female chief of mission in the Persian Gulf, and the first female head of post in the Middle East for the United States. Cook heads her own international business consulting firm, The Ballard Group and is Managing Director of the Quincy Group, a strategic advisory firm and merchant bank. Early life and education Cook was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Nash and Vivian Cook but grew up in Homestead, Florida. She earned a BA from University of Mary Washington, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in 1967. In 1978, she received a M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassador Of The United States To Burundi
The part of Africa that is now Burundi and Rwanda was a feudalism, feudal monarchy headed by a ''King of Burundi, mwami'' (king) and a ''ganwa'', a feudal hierarchy of Tutsi nobles and gentry until 1890. In that year the Germans attacked the nation and attempted to subdue it with armed force. Eventually the Germans backed an attempted ''coup d'état, coup d’état'' against the king, Mwezi IV Gisabo of Burundi, Mwezi Gisabo. The ''coup'' was unsuccessful, but Gisabo was eventually forced to concede and agreed to German suzerainty. The Germans then helped him suppress the revolt. Thus Burundi became part of German East Africa in 1890. In 1915 during World War I, The Great War, Belgium, Belgian troops from Zaire drove the small number of Germans out of Burundi and took control of the country. After World War I Germany lost its overseas possessions and the League of Nations League of Nations mandate, mandated Burundi and its southern neighbor, Rwanda, to Belgium as the territory of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |