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Zainab Bangura

1959 - Today

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Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura (; 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, appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Zainab Bangura is the 18,681st most popular politician (down from 18,631st in 2024), the 15th most popular biography from Sierra Leone (down from 14th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Sierra Leonean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zainab Bangura ranks 18,681 out of 19,576. Before her are Peter Sunde, Jim DeMint, Denis McDonough, Maximilian Krah, Urmas Reinsalu, and Javier Imbroda. After her are Alberto Otárola, Richard Schweiker, Jordi Sànchez, Dmitry Patrushev, Anthony Scaramucci, and Shahbaz Bhatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Zainab Bangura ranks 732. Before her are Francisco Javier Toledo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Uma Bharti, Brian Goodell, Stephen Kotkin, and Nils Johan Semb. After her are Francis Magee, Georgi Dimitrov, Paul Attanasio, Lesley Thompson, Todd Graff, and Charles Kennedy.

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In Sierra Leone

Among people born in Sierra Leone, Zainab Bangura ranks 15 out of 22. Before her are Mohamed Kallon (1979), Johnny Paul Koroma (1960), Fatima Massaquoi (1912), Valentine Strasser (1967), Patricia Piccinini (1965), and FannyAnn Eddy (1974). After her are Nathaniel Chalobah (1994), Roda Antar (1980), Eunice Barber (1974), Rodney Strasser (1990), Ishmael Beah (1980), and Umaru Bangura (1987).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sierra Leone

Among politicians born in Sierra Leone, Zainab Bangura ranks 10. Before her are Siaka Stevens (1905), Ernest Bai Koroma (1953), Joseph Saidu Momoh (1937), Milton Margai (1895), Johnny Paul Koroma (1960), and Valentine Strasser (1967).

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