Meet Cameroon's New Ambassador To USA

Cameroon’s new Ambassador to the United States of America had served in Israel for the past 22 years! He was ambassador for 17 years!

Henri Etoundi Essomba was appointed April 11 2016 by Presidential decree same like S. Mvondo Ayolo, Cameroon’s new Ambassador to France.

Etoundi Essomba replaces Joseph Atangana Foe while  Mvondo Ayolo who was Ambassador in Gabon, takes over from Le Jeune Mbella Mbella who became Minister of External Relations in October 2015. Both appointees are  diplomats by profession and from the Ewondo clan.

Etoundi Essomba was initially sent as Chargé d’Affaires in the early 1990s, to set up the chancery and pave the way for Cameroon’s first Ambassador to Israel.

 In the mid-1990s, following the assassination of the then Isreali PM, Yitzhak Rabin, Essomba was summoned home. He was thereafter offered the position of Deputy Chief of Protocol from where he rose to the rank of Ambassador at the Cameroon embassy in Moshe Sharet, Tel Aviv, Isreal.

In 2007, in addition to his post of Ambassador, he became Dean of the Diplomatic Corps;the veteran of all the heads of foreign missions in that Middle East country. No Ambassador has spent that number of years in a single country, not even Israel, reports Isreal’s, Jerusalem Post.

Ambassador Etoundi Essomba inherits an embassy where allegations of corruption and embezzlement have been rife amid other complains. Other Cameroonians conversely appreciated the out-gone  Ambassador to the USA, Joseph Atangana Foe who is said to have brought huge changes, and made it easier for Cameroonians have access to services at Embassy in Washington. the The worry about the embassy in France  surrounds the use of Cameroon's " two official languages".

Solomon Amabo Amabo