Bush Nominates Three New Ambassadors to African Nations

United States Department of State (Washington, DC)
NEWS
January 24, 2004
Posted to the web January 26, 2004
Washington, DC

U.S. representatives named to Eritrea, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia

President George W. Bush nominated U.S. ambassadors to the nations of
Eritrea, Cote, D'Ivoire, and The Gambia in a White House statement released
January 23.

Scott H. DeLisi, nominated as ambassador to Eritrea, is a career member of
the Senior Foreign Service who currently serves as Director of the Office
of Southern African Affairs at the State Department. He previously served
as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Botswana. DeLisi earlier
served as a political officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka and Islamabad,
Pakistan. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota
and his law degree from the University of Minnesota School of Law.

Aubrey Hooks, nominated as ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire, is a career member
of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Previously, he served as the Economic
Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. Mr. Hooks also served at
the American embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel and at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He
earned his bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina and his
master's degree from the University of Michigan.

Joseph D. Stafford III, nominated as ambassador the Republic of The Gambia,
is also a member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as
Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He
previously served in the same position for both the U.S. embassies in
Tunis, Tunisia, and in Algiers, Algeria. Mr. Stafford earned his bachelor's
degree and master's degree from the University of Tennessee.

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