Aanaa Naamua Enin is a

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politician and diplomat. She was a member of the

Provisional National Defence Council The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, in a coup ...

(PNDC) military government of

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. She has also served as Ghana's ambassador to the

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Politics

Aanaa Enin was made a member of the military PNDC government in 1983. The PNDC was formed following the overthrow of the

Limann government This is a listing of the ministers who served in Limann's People's National Party government during the Third Republic of Ghana. The Third Republic was inaugurated on 24 September 1979. It ended with the coup on 31 December 1981, which brought t ...

in December 1981 by a military coup d'état led by

Jerry Rawlings Jerry John Rawlings (born Jerry Rawlings John; 22 June 194712 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, and politician who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1993 and then se ...

who became the

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. She served in this capacity until 1989. In 2019, she was appointed to the Complaints Committee of the NDC.

Diplomatic service

Enin served as Ghana's ambassador to the Netherlands during the rule of John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from 2010 to about 2012.

References

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