United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health, Zainab Hawa Bangura as his Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She succeeds Sweden’s Margot Wallström who was appointed in February 2010.
Mrs Bangura has also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and has a history of civil society activism. He also worked for the UN Mission in Liberia in the civil affairs department. She is the first and so far only woman to run for President in Sierra Leone when she did in 1996
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