Fatoumata Kaba

Fatoumata Kaba Sidibé (born 1969? [http://www.jeuneafrique.com/jeune_afrique/article_jeune_afrique.asp?art_cle=LIN04033fatouabakat0 "Fatoumata Kaba."] , Jeuneafrique.com, March 4, 2002 fr icon.] ) is a Guinean diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2006.

Kaba was educated in the United States, attending the Woodrow Wilson High School and Montgomery College in Maryland and graduating with a degree in journalism. She returned to Guinea in 1992, working for Guinean Radio and Television and CNN; in 1998, she become a correspondent for Reuters news agency. Subsequently she worked for the Communications Unit of the United Nations Development Programme before joining the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2000.

On February 25 2002, Kaba was appointed as the delegate of the UNHCR for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, and Uganda; she was based in Kinshasa. She was then Guinea's ambassador to Nigeria before being appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in a cabinet reshuffle on March 8 2005. [Cheikh Yérim Seck, [http://www.jeuneafrique.com/jeune_afrique/article_jeune_afrique.asp?art_cle=LIN13035liftilatnem0 "Lifting gouvernemental"] , Jeuneafrique.com, March 13, 2005 fr icon.] She remained in that post until May 2006.

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