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Accra: President John Mahama has nominated veteran Ghanaian journalist Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Harruna Attah and influential politician Alhaji Said Saleh Sinare as high commissioner to Namibia and ambassador to Saudi Arabia, respectively.

Both had previously served in the same roles during the first tenure of the president.

The two were named in a list of nominees for ambassadors and high commissioners that the president had announced in a letter dated July 21, 2025, and submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.

Their nomination adds to the growing list of Muslims serving the country in top diplomatic positions.

Alhaji Attah, managing editor of the Accra Daily Mail newspaper, had previously served as high commissioner of Namibia and Botswana from July 2014 to January 2017, having been appointed by President John Dramani Mahama.

Sinare, a former National Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, on the other hand, was first appointed as Ambassador to Egypt in January 2012 by President John Evans Atta Mills to replace Amin Amidu Sulemana after a major reshuffle of his ministers and appointees.

He was later appointed to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia in October 2014, a portfolio he held until the NDC left office in 2017.

So far, the president has appointed Ghanaian actress Kalsoume Sinare Baffoe, a sibling to Said Sinare, as Ghana’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and Sheikh Abdul Nasiru-Deen as Ghana’s ambassador to Turkey.