Mrs. Susan Waffa-Ogoo, the recently appointed High Commissioner to India, has now been appointed Gambia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, reliable official sources disclosed to this paper. She replaces Mrs Neneh Macdouall-Gaye who was appointed to that post on 19thMarch 2008.

No official reason has been advanced either for Mrs Neneh MacDouall-Gaye’s failure to accede to the post or for the apparent elevation of Mrs Susan Waffa-Ogoo’s status.