Africa / New Ambassadors to Stockholm

By Sweden - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 24, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The following four ambassadors will present their letters of credence to HM The King on Thursday 24 November 2011.

Angola

Angola's newly appointed Ambassador Brito António Sózinho was born in 1941 and has served at the Ministry of External Relations since 1975. In recent years he has held the following posts:

2006-2011 Ambassador to Guinea Bissau

2001-2006 Ambassador to Tanzania with concurrent accreditation to Kenya, Burundi, Uganda and the Seychelles Also Angola's permanent representative at the UN body in Kenya

1987-2001 Ambassador to Nigeria with concurrent accreditation to Benin, Togo, Niger and Ghana

Liberia

Liberia's newly appointed Ambassador Ethel Davis(concurrently accredited from Berlin) has a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University in Washington D.C.

and held several senior positions at the African Development Bank during the period 1992-2001, including the last four years as adviser to the Executive Director.

During the period 2001-2006 she was Manager for Human Resources at the Central Bank of Liberia and subsequently Deputy Governor at the same bank from 2006 to 2009.

Between 2009 and 2010, Ambassador Davis was a consultant at the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and since December 2010 she has been Ambassador in Berlin.