Name Diana Konomanyi Nationality Sierra Leonean Role Politician | Spouse(s) Alie Kabbah Alma mater Fourah Bay College | |
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Residence Freetown, Sierra LeoneKoidu Town, Sierra Leone | ||
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.
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Kornomanyi is the former District Chairwoman of Kono District. 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.
Born and raised in Koidu Town, Kono District, Diana Konomanyi is widely considired one of the most influential female politicians in Sierra Leone. She is a close ally of Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma.
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)[8].
In 2009, Konomanyi was elected as the APC regional chaiwoman 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 [9].
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[10]. The traditional and islamic wedding ceremony in Koidu Town was attended my many senior Sierra Leonean government officials [11].