Haja Afsatu Kabba

Infobox President


imagesize = 150px
name = Haja Afsatu Kabba
nationality = Sierra Leonean
|order = Sierra Leone's Minister of Energy and Power
term_start = 14 October, 2007
term_end =
birth_date = birth date and age|1953|07|02
birth_place = Kabala, Koinadugu District, Sierra Leone
dead =
party = All People's Congress (APC)
spouse =
residence = Freetown, Sierra Leone
religion = Islam
ethnic group =

Haja Afsatu Kabba (born on July 2, 1953 in Kabala, Koinadugu District) is a Sierra Leonean politician with the All People's Congress (APC). She is currently Sierra Leone's minister of Energy and Power. [ [http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056717.shtml Sierra Leone announces Ten Cabinet Ministers; More later: Sierra Leone News ] ] She is one of only three women in the country's current cabinet. She is a member of the Mandingo ethnic group.

Early life

Haja Afsatu Kabba was born on July 2, 1953 in the town of Kabala, Koinadugu District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to Muslim parents from the Mandingo ethnic group. She completed her primary education in her hometown of Kabala and attended the Ahmaddiyya Muslim Secondary School in Freetown.

Political career

On 14 May, 2002 Sierra Leone general election, Haja Afsatu Kabba ran for seat in parliament as candidate of the then oppostion All People's Congress (APC) from the Western Area Urban District. She won one of four seats in parliament reserve for the Western Area Urban, but her party's presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma won only 19.4% of the vote in the presidential election compared to the incumbent President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) 70%. On October 16, 2007, newly elected Sierra leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma named Haja Afsatu Kabba as the country's mininster of energy and power.

External links

* http://www.cocorioko.net/Fridayoctober122007p2.html