Diana Finda Konomanyi

Diana Finda Konomanyi is a Sierra Leonean politician and the current Sierra Leone Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment. She was the previous Sierra Leone minister of Local Government and Rural Development.[1][2]

Diana Finda Konomanyi
Sierra Leone minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment
Assumed office
2015 present
PresidentErnest Bai Koroma
Sierra Leone minister of Local Government and Rural Development
In office
2012–2015
Succeeded byMaya Kaikai
District Council chairwoman of Kono District
In office
2010–2012
All People's Congress chairwoman of the Eastern Province
In office
2009–2010
Personal details
BornKoidu Town, Sierra Leone
NationalitySierra Leonean
Political partyAll People's Congress (APC)
Spouse(s)Alie Kabbah
ResidenceFreetown, Sierra Leone Koidu Town, Sierra Leone
Alma materFourah Bay College

Kornomanyi is the former District Chairwoman of Kono District.[3] A member of the All People's Congress (APC), she had previously served as the All People's Congress chairwoman of the Eastern Province region of Sierra Leone.[4]

Born and raised in Koidu Town, Kono District, Diana Konomanyi is widely considered one of the most influential female politicians in Sierra Leone. She is a close ally of Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma.[5][6]

Political career

Diana Konomanyi ran for a seat in the Sierra Leone Parliament in the 2007 Sierra Leone General elections as the candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC), but she was defeated in a close race by the incumbent parliamentarian Emmanuel Tommy of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).

In 2009, Konomanyi was elected as the APC regional chairwoman for the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. In 2010, she was elected as the Chairman of Kono District, after defeating Sahr Foa Matturi of the Sierra Leone People's Party in a close race .

In 2012 she was appointed by Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma to serve as Sierra Leone Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.

Personal life

On August 18, 2013 Diana Finda Konomanyi celebrated her wedding to Alie Kabbah, an ethnic Mandingo, and a Sierra Leonean human right activist based in the United States, and a former Union President of Fourah Bay College. The traditional and islamic wedding ceremony in Koidu Town was attended my many senior Sierra Leonean government officials .

References
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2014-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2014-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine.
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