Justine Kasa-Vubu | |
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| Minister of the Civil Service | |
| President | Laurent-Désiré Kabila |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1951-04-14)14 April 1951 (age 74) |
| Nationality | Congolese |
| Political party | Union for Democracy and Social Progress Mouvement des Démocrates |
| Parent | Joseph Kasa-Vubu |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Louvain, Free University of Brussels |
Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu (born 14 April 1951[citation needed]) is aCongolese 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 the2006 elections.
She is the daughter ofJoseph Kasa-Vubu,[1] the first president of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo.
She was a candidate in theCongolese presidential elections of July 2006, but obtained only 0.44% of the votes in the first round.[2]
After her father died andJoseph-Désiré Mobutu took over, she went into exile with the rest of her family, first toAlgeria and then toSwitzerland, where she finished her studies. She wound up living inBelgium and there graduated from theCatholic University of Louvain (UCL). She worked inGeneva for theHigh Commissioner for the Refugees of the UN. She went back to Belgium to continue her work at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and in Central African studies at theUniversité libre de Bruxelles (ULB).[3]
In 1991, she joined theUnion for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) ofÉtienne Tshisekedi, the main opposition party to Joseph Mobutu. On 22 May 1997, she was appointed Minister of the Civil Service in the first government ofLaurent-Désiré Kabila.[4] She was appointedambassador 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 hold discussions with Kabila.[5]
| External videos | |
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 Justine Kasa-Vubu,TV5Monde, 19 Janvier 2014 |
