Nyamko Ana Sabuni (born 31 March 1969) is a politician, currently serving as Minister for Gender Equality in the Swedish government. She is a member of the Liberal People's Party. Sabuni was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002 and assumed the office of Minister for Gender Equality on 6 October 2006. Between 2006 and 2010 she also served as Minister for Integration.
Nyamko Sabuni was born in Bujumbura in Burundi where her father, a left-wing po...
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Nyamko Ana Sabuni (born 31 March 1969) is a politician, currently serving as Minister for Gender Equality in the Swedish government. She is a member of the Liberal People's Party. Sabuni was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002 and assumed the office of Minister for Gender Equality on 6 October 2006. Between 2006 and 2010 she also served as Minister for Integration.
Nyamko Sabuni was born in Bujumbura in Burundi where her father, a left-wing politician from Zaire, lived in exile. Sabuni's father is a Christian while her mother is a Muslim. The family obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1981 and Sabuni grew up in Kungsängen, north of Stockholm. She studied law at Uppsala University, migration policy at Mälardalen University in Eskilstuna, and information and media communications at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm.
She is married to a Swedish man with whom she has twin boys. She has described herself as non-religious.
Sabuni was a member of board of the Liberal Youth of...
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