Zainab Bangura
| Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura | |
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Zainab Bangura giving a radio interview in Kinshasa (2013)
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| United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict | |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Sierra Leone Minister of Health and Sanitation | |
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In office 3 December 2010 – 3 September 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Soccoh Kabia |
| Succeeded by | Tamba Borbor-Sawyer |
| Sierra Leone Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 14 October 2007 – 3 December 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Momodu Koroma |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Bandabla Dauda |
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Zainab Hawa Sesay 18 December 1959 Yonibana, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone |
| Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
| Political party | All People's Congress (APC) |
| Spouse(s) | Alhaji Shekie Bangura |
| Residence | New York City, US |
| Alma mater | Fourah Bay College |
| Profession | Social activist |
| Religion | Islam |
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. Mrs. Bangura also served as Sierra Leone's Minister of Health and sanitation from 2010 to 2012.
As a devoted Muslim, Mrs. Bangura took time off politics in 2009 to travel to the Holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to participate in the 2009 Hajj pilgrimage ceremony. She was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict on 22 June 2012.
Zainab Hawa Bangura was born "Zainab Hawa Sesay" in the small rural town of Yonibana, Tonkolili District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. She hails from the Temne ethnic group. She was born into a family of limited means, and she attended secondary school on a scholarship that was awarded to her by the Mathora Girls Secondary School near Magburaka. She later attended the Annie Walsh Girls Secondary School in the capital city of Freetown. Then, after graduating from Sierra Leone's Fourah Bay College, she studied in the United Kingdom for advanced diplomas in insurance. While in her early 30s, she became vice-president of one of her country's largest insurance companies. She speaks three languages: Temne, Krio, and English.
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