Mamou
Mamou (Pular: 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤥𞤵𞤲) is a city and sub-prefecture in a valley of the Fouta Djallon area of Guinea. Population 376,269 (2018 est),and the city is almost 98% Fulani tribe. Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry with a master's degree in Labour law in 1980. She was a Humphrey Fellow.
Career
Camara worked in various public service roles from 1980 to 1985. In 1986, she was appointed Inspector General at the Ministry of the Civil Service, responsible for labor law and arbitration between trade unions and employers. From 1991 to 2002, she was a member of the Transitional National Recovery Committee.
Camara was appointed to cabinet when Guinea was under military rule, in 1992 as Secretary of State for Social Affairs, Women's Promotion and Childhood, then in 1994 as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry. From 1997 to 2000 she chaired the Board of Directors of the National Office for Employment and Manpower, and during the war in Liberia and Sierra Leone she was Secretary General of Réseau des Femmes Africaines Ministres et Parlementaires (REFAMP) in Guinea.
Camara was appointed as Guinea's Ambassador to
The Gambia
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, Cape Verde and Mauritania in 2002, serving a five-year term. In 2007, she was appointed Ambassador to
France
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,
Spain
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,
Portugal
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and
Morocco
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and was Guinea's representative to
UNESCO
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,
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
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and IBE. She served as REFAMP Secretary General from 2012 to 2015 and spoke out for
gender equality
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.
Camara was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of
Alpha Condé
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Condé spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President L ...
on 4 January 2016. She is a member of the national steering committee for the "Fight against
Genital Mutilation
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