KEFI Minerals Plc announced that Norman Ling, will join company's Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director at the close of AGM on June 23, 2014. Mr. Ling (age 61) has held a series of appointments at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a career spanning more than 30 years. Mr. Ling was the British Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti and the African Union from 2008 to 2011, after which he retired from government service.

He was on the Board of Nyota Minerals Limited, from which KEFI acquired the Tulu Kapi project in Ethiopia, between June 2012 and March 2014.