United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to announce, shortly, the appointment of 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.
Until her current ministerial position, Mrs Bangura had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and had been a civil society activist before working for the UN Mission in Liberia. She became the first woman to run for president in Sierra Leone in 1996.
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