Fatoumata Lejeune-Kaba (born 1969"Fatoumata Kaba."
Jeuneafrique.com, March 4, 2002 .) is a Guinean journalist who works for the UNHCR as Communications Officer. Kaba was educated in the

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, attending the Woodrow Wilson High School and

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and graduating with a degree in journalism. She returned to Guinea in 1992, working for Guinean Radio and Television and

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; in 1998, she became a correspondent for

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news agency. Subsequently, she worked for the Communications Unit of the

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before joining the

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(UNHCR) in 2000. On February 25, 2002, Kaba was appointed as the delegate of the UNHCR for the

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, the Republic of the Congo, the

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, and

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; she was based in Kinshasa. She was also in Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire after that. She is currently in Geneva as the Communications Officer covering Central, East, West and Southern Africa and Statistics.

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