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23 May 2012
   
 
 
 
 
 
Pres ident George W. Bush has picked career diplomats to be US ambassadors to Namibia, Lesotho, as well as Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe, the White House announced in a statement Thursday.

Bush tapped Joyce Barr, currently serving as the counselor for management affairs at the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to the Namibia post.

He chose June Carter Perry, the director of social and humanitarian affairs for the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, as ambassador to Lesotho.

And he picked R. Barrie Walkley, now chief of mission at the US Embassy in Guinea, to be ambassador to Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe.

All US ambassadorial nominations require Senate approval. - Sapa-AFP
Edited by: jenny furness
 
 
 
 
 
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