Adja Satú Camará

Adja Satú Camará Pinto is a politician from Guinea-Bissau. A health administrator and veteran PAICS politician, she served as a PAICS Deputy in the National People's Assembly between 1977 and 2008. She was Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2010. In 2016 she left PAICS, joining Madem G15 in 2018. In 2019 she was elected second vice-president of the National Popular Assembly. In 2020 she was appointed the fourth deputy speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Life Adja Satú Camará was born in N’Tuhana, Buba Sector, Quinara Region. She was the daughter of Mamadú Camará and Mariama Sambú. She joined the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAICS) and participated in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. In 1964 she undertook military training in Ghana, and in 1965 trained in the USSR as an auxiliary combat nurse. After various health administration posts Camará was appointed head of health services at Bafatá hospital after independence. She was Vice-President of PAICS from 2003 to 2007, and a member of the State Council in 2004.