Sunkarie Kabba-Kamara (born May 29, 1969) is a Sierra Leonean

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and the current

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of the city of Makeni. She is currently the only female mayor in Sierra Leone's six

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. She is a member of the ruling All People's Congress (APC)

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. She surprisingly defeated the

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mayor of Makeni

Moses Musa Sesay Moses Sesay is the current Mayor of the City of Makeni in the Bombali district of Northern Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia ...

in a landslide in the APC primary election held on September 2, 2012, in Makeni. She won the 2012 mayoral election with 86.95%, over her main opponent Abu A Koroma of the Sierra Leone People's Party, and was sworn in as mayor on December 22, 2012. Her

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ceremony was attended by many senior members of the APC party, including Sierra Leone's president Ernest Bai Koroma

Sunkari Kabba-Kamara is a native of Bombali District in Northern Sierra Leone, and a member of the Mandingo

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