Dembo M. Badjie (born 1952) is a retired

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n civil servant and diplomat. He entered the Gambian Government in 1970, taking a break to study

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and

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, followed by postgraduate studies at

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. He reentered the civil service in 1978, serving in several ministries, including local government and education. In 1983, he had a daughter,

Fatim Badjie Fatim Badjie (born November 13, 1983) is a Gambian entrepreneur, and strategic communications expert who served in various capacities in the country’s private sector. Early life and education Fatim Badjie was born around 1982 in Banjul, is ...

, who is also a Gambian politician.

Career

He eventually joined the foreign service, serving as the first secretary of the Gambian embassy in

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and the Gambian mission to the

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. He became Ambassador to

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in 2004. In 2010, he was moved to be the Gambian ambassador to

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(also serving

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and

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), in 2010, before entering the Gambian embassy in

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in 2016, after the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In 2017, he retired and wrote a book, Outlook on Governance & Administration in The Gambia.

References

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