Teneng Mba Jaiteh

Teneng Mba Jaiteh is a Gambian politician who served as Gambia's ambassador to the European Union as well as seven of its member states.

Early life and education Jaiteh was educated at the University of Sierra Leone's Fourabay College and the London School of Economics. She has a BA in History and an MSc in Development Studies.

On 29 May 2009, Jaiteh was appointed Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources by President Yahya Jammeh. She was later appointed Minister of Energy, She became one of nearly 200 cabinet ministers and government officials to be hired and fired by Jammeh since he came to power in a 1994 coup. She was reinstated three days later.

In January 2015, Jaiteh was appointed as Gambia's ambassador to the European Union, based in Brussels also covering Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia and the Czech Republic as well as the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the International Criminal Court and the World Trade Organization. sending a joint congratulatory letter to Barrow. In response, Jammeh's new Information Minister, Seedy Njie said in January 2017 that the twelve ambassadors had been fired.