Reliable
sources have told this paper that Imam Pa Njie of Pipeline Mosque has been
appointed Gambia’s Ambassador to Senegal.
Imam
Pa Njie, a career diplomat, joined the diplomatic service in 1980 in Saudi Arabia
at The Gambia’s Embassy in Saudi Arabia.
He
was first appointed second secretary then first secretary and then consul at
the Embassy.
Imam
Njie was also consul from 1992 to 1995 at the Gambia Embassy in Dakar. He
returned to Saudi Arabia at the Embassy as consul, and then head of chancery.
He
became the first consul general in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1998. In 2000 he was
appointed Gambia Ambassador to Qatar and the Gulf States until 2002.
Imam
Njie is bilingual, speaking Arabic and English. He studied in Syria where he
graduated in the faculty of Letters of the University of Damascus.
