Zainab Bangura

Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura
Zainab Bangura speaking at the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London, 2013.
Director-General, United Nations Office at Nairobi
Assumed office
January 2020
Preceded byMaimunah Mohd Sharif
United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
In office
22 June 2012 – 12 April 2017
Preceded byMargot Wallström
Succeeded byPramila Patten
Sierra Leone Minister of Health and Sanitation
In office
3 December 2010 – 3 September 2012
Preceded bySoccoh Kabia
Succeeded byTamba Borbor-Sawyer
Sierra Leone Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
14 October 2007 – 3 December 2010
Preceded byMomodu Koroma
Succeeded byJoseph Bandabla Dauda
Personal details
Born
Zainab Hawa Sesay[citation needed]

(1959-12-18) 18 December 1959 (age 64)
Yonibana, Tonkolili District, British Sierra Leone
Political partyAll People's Congress (APC)
SpouseAlhaji Shekie Bangura
Residence(s)Freetown, Sierra Leone
New York City, U.S.
Alma materFourah Bay College
ProfessionSocial activist

Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura (/ˈznəb ˈhɑːwə bəŋˈɡrə/; born 18 December 1959) is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) since 2018,[1] appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.[2] She served as the second United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2012 to 2017, in succession to the first holder of the post, Margot Wallström. In 2017 she was succeeded by Pramila Patten.[3][4][5]

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.[6] She was the second woman to serve in that post, following Shirley Gbujama who held that position from 1996 to 1997. She served as Minister of Health and Sanitation from 2010 to 2012.

  1. ^ "Office of the Director-General | UNON".
  2. ^ "Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone - Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)". United Nations | Secretary-General. 30 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Zainab Hawa Bangura of Sierra Leone Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict", UN.org, Secretary-General, SG/A/1354, BIO/4378, 22 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Pramila Patten of Mauritius Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". www.un.org. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  5. ^ About the Office
  6. ^ Sierra Leone announces Ten Cabinet Ministers; More later: Sierra Leone News