Nyamko Sabuni
| Nyamko Sabuni | |
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Nyamko Sabuni.
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| Minister for Gender Equality | |
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In office 6 October 2006 – 21 January 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
| Preceded by | Jens Orback |
| Succeeded by | Maria Arnholm |
| Minister for Integration | |
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In office 6 October 2006 – 5 October 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
| Preceded by | Jens Orback |
| Succeeded by | Erik Ullenhag |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
31 March 1969 Bujumbura, Burundi |
| Political party | Liberal People's Party |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University |
| Website | www.folkpartiet.se/sabuni |
Nyamko Ana Sabuni (born 31 March 1969) is a Burundian-born Swedish former politician who served as Minister for Gender Equality in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2013. A member of the Liberal People's Party, Sabuni was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002 and assumed the office of Minister for Gender Equality on 6 October 2006. From 2006 to 2010 she also served as Minister for Integration.
Nyamko Sabuni was born in Bujumbura in Burundi where her father, a left-wing politician from Zaire, lived in exile. Sabuni's father is a Christian while her mother is a Muslim. The family obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1981 and Sabuni grew up in Kungsängen, north of . She studied law at Uppsala University, migration policy at Mälardalen University in Eskilstuna, and information and media communications at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm.
She was married from 2004 to 2012 and has twin boys from that marriage. She has described herself as non-religious.
Sabuni was a member of board of the Liberal Youth of Sweden from 1996 to 1998. She has cited the murder of Ivorian refugee Gerard Gbeyo, committed by a Swedish neo-Nazi in the town of Klippan in 1995, as one of the reasons she became involved in politics.
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