President Jakaya Kikwete.
President Jakaya Kikwete has appointed Ambassador Liberata Mulamula to be the new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
A press statement released yesterday by the State House Directorate of Presidential Communication said that Ambassador Mulamula was serving as the Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania in the United States of America.
He however appointed Ambassador Hassan Simba Yahya to be the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the same ministry.
Ambassador Yahya was the Director of the Department of Middle East at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
According to the statement their appointments started on May 2nd this year.
Liberata Mulamula before her appointment as Tanzania’s Ambassador Extraordinary to the United States of America was Senior Personal Assistant of the President of the United Republic of Tanzania from March 2012.
Before that she served as the first Executive Secretary of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) with headquarters in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 2006-2011. She also served at the Tanzania High Commission to Canada and Permanent Mission to New York as Minister Plenipotentiary and Head of Chancery from 1999 to 2003 respectively before being appointed Ambassador and Director of Multilateral Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania, the post she held up to the year 2006.
She was a part time lecturer on the “Art of Negotiations” at the Centre for Foreign Relations in Dar es Salaam, and participated in all the Rwandese Peace Talks, Burundi and DRC as part of the Facilitators Team. Amb. Mulamula is a graduate from St. John’s University, New York where she obtained her MA(Government and Politics) and University of Dar-es Salaam in 1980 and 1989 respectively.
She is married to George and they have two children, Tanya and Alvin.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
