The late Gambian ambassador to the United States Dawda Fadera has been laid to rest in Brufut today.

The ambassador, who was on a short visit to The Gambia, died on Sunday at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital after a short illness. 

He was in his fifties. 

Mr Fadera was the Permanent Secretary at the Personnel Management Office (PMO), where he directed and facilitated civil service recruitment, placement, and capacity development, workforce budgeting, promotions, discipline, institutional development, and reform programs at both the policy and operational levels.

He was Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service before he was appointed Ambassador. 

He was the Board Chair of the National Records Services and Management Development Institute during his term in the Gambia’s administration, as well as the contact person for the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC), on interventions in the public sector.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba