nationality ethnicity birth_date residence term_end alma_mater profession order term_start spouse image name caption predecessor birth_place party office successor religion article_title birth_name
sierra leonean temne 18 december 1959 freetown , sierra leone , 3 september 2012 3 december 2010 fourah bay college social activist united nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict 2012 3 december 2010 14 october 2007 alhaji shekie bangura zainab 8654821769 -rrb- . jpg bangura giving a radio interview in kinshasa -lrb- haja zainab hawa bangura zainab 2013 -rrb- bangura giving a radio interview in kinshasa -lrb- soccoh kabia momodu koroma yonibana , tonkolili district , sierra leone all people 's congress -lrb- apc -rrb- sierra minister of foreign affairs leone minister of health and sanitation sierra leone tamba borbor-sawyer joseph bandabla dauda islam zainab bangura
 zainab hawa sesay september 2013
zainab bangura

haja zainab hawa bangura -lrb- born 18 december 1959 -rrb- 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 -lrb- apc -rrb- 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 .
