Elizabeth Salamatu Forgor is a

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diplomat and a member of the

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of Ghana. She was Ghana's High Commissioner to Namibia between 2017 and 2025.

Politics

In 2003, she contested and lost the New Patriotic Party's primaries in the Bole Constituency to represent her party in the 2004 Ghanaian General Elections. Forgor was appointed the

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of Bole by John kuffour during his second term as president. However, in November 2007, her appointment was terminated by the then president.

Ambassadorial appointment

In July 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo named Elizabeth Forgor as Ghana's ambassador to

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

. She was among twenty two other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various diplomatic Ghanaian missions in the world.

References

Living people High commissioners of Ghana to Namibia Year of birth missing (living people) Ghanaian women ambassadors New Patriotic Party politicians 21st-century Ghanaian women politicians {{Ghana-diplomat-stub