Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura (born 18 December 1959) is a Sierra Leonean politician and Social Activist. She was appointed as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict in September 2012.In 2007 Bangura became Sierra Leone’s foreign minister in the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People’s Congress (APC) Party. She was the second woman to serve in that post following Shirley Gbujama who held that position from 1996 to 1997.
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active years end date
2010-12-03, 2012-09-03
active years start date
2007-10-14, 2010-12-03
alma mater
Fourah Bay College
birth date
1959-12-18
birth place
Sierra Leone, Tonkolili District, Yonibana
office
Sierra Leone Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sierra Leone Minister of Health and Sanitation
order in office
United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
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