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Justine Kasa-Vubu
Minister of the Civil Service
PresidentLaurent-Désiré Kabila
Personal details
Born (1951-04-14) 14 April 1951 (age 73)
Léopoldville, Belgian Congo
(modern-day Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
NationalityCongolese
Political partyUnion for Democracy and Social Progress
Mouvement des Démocrates
Alma materCatholic University of Louvain,
Free University of Brussels

Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu (born 14 April 1951) is a Congolese politician and leader of a small political party, the Movement of the Congolese Democrats (Mouvement des démocrates congolais), for whom she stood as a Presidential candidate in the 2006 elections.

Life

She is the daughter of Joseph Kasa-Vubu,[1] who was the first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She was a candidate in the Congolese presidential elections of July 2006, in which she only obtained 0.44% of the votes in the first round.[2]

After the death of her father and the taking of power by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, she went into exile with the rest of her family first to Algeria and afterwards to Switzerland, where she finished her studies. She finished living in Belgium and there graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). She worked in Ginebra for the High Commissioner for the Refugees of the UN. She went back to Belgium to continue her work in the Centre of Investigation on the epidemiology of natural disasters and in Central African studies of the Free University of Brussels (ULB).[3]

In 1991, she joined the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) of Étienne Tshisekedi, the main opposition party to Joseph Mobutu. On 22 May 1997, she was appointed minister of the Civil Service in the first government of Laurent-Désiré Kabila.[4] She was appointed ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Belgium. She resigned after disagreements with Laurent-Désiré Kabila.[3]

In 2013, she was a member of the Mouvement des Démocrates party. Unlike other opposition parties, she was prepared to talk with Kabila.[5]

Works

  • Joseph Kasa-Vubu mon père : de la naissance d’une conscience nationale à l’indépendance, Bruxelles, s.n., 1985.
  • Kasa-Vubu et le Congo indépendant (1960-1969), Bruxelles, LeCri, 1997. ISBN 9782871061854
  • Douze mois chez Kabila, Bruxelles, Le Cri, 1999. ISBN 9782871062097
  • Sommes-nous décolonisés?, Paris-Bruxelles, Castells – Labor, 2000. ISBN 9782912587381

References

  1. ^ Turner, Thomas (2007-06-15). The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality. Zed Books. ISBN 9781842776896.
  2. ^ "Cas de Justine KASA-VUBU : La jeunesse congolaise appelée à tenir aux convictions pour éviter des erreurs". afrique.kongotimes.info. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  3. ^ a b Kisangani, Emizet Francois; Bobb, Scott F. (2009-10-01). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810863255.
  4. ^ Prunier, Gerard (2011-04-02). Africas World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199705832.
  5. ^ "RDC : Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu "réceptive" aux concertations nationales". afrikarabia2.blogs.courrierinternational.com. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
External videos
video icon Justine Kasa-Vubu, TV5Monde, 19 Janvier 2014

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