Ambassador Osman Keh Kamara is Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Permanent Representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa since 2014. His diplomatic district covers the Israel and countries in the Eastern and Southern African regions. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree (Honoris Causa) from the Commonwealth University in London during a ceremony held on Tuesday 31 October 2017 in the United Arab Emirates.
Ambassador Keh Kamara was recognized for his representation of Sierra Leone to the African Union and its various policy organs.
On assuming office as Permanent Representative to the AU, Sierra Leone for the very first time became a member of the Peace and Security Council in 2016. Ambassador Keh Kamara set an unprecedented record at the PSC to serve as Chair for two consecutive months instead of the stipulated one-month. He has been vocal on issues among others; the Practical Steps in Silencing the Guns on the continent by the year 2020, Reform of the UN Security Council, making a case for refugees, children, internally displaced persons, and gender parity.
Before his appointment as Permanent Representative to the African Union, this distinguished patriot was Deputy Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in New York. He was specifically in charge of the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which is responsible for all legal matters of the organization. He also served as Co-Counsel (Appeals Chamber) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
He was elected by the UN General Assembly and appointed by the UN Secretary General to serve as Member of the UN Group of Experts of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of Marine Environment including its Socio-economic Aspects.
He served as Co-Counsel (Appeals Chambers) of the United Nations backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. He also served as Manager in the Prosecutions Unit of the Sierra Leone National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), he has been a retained Barrister & Solicitor of UNHCR on gender based offences; he performed similar and other legal services for several institutions and persons in Sierra Leone between 2000-2008.
He holds an LL.B Hons. (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone) BL (Sierra Leone Law School), MPA (Columbia University, New York, USA), Post-Graduate Diploma (Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy, Greece). He is an Author of a Chapter in a book titled “Shielding Humanity– Essays in International Law” Published in 2015 by Brill Nijhoff etc. Ambassador Keh Kamara is married to Fathia Kamara and they have children.
AT/6/11/17
Tuesday November 07, 2017.
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