TheCongolese Diplomatic Academy (French:Académie diplomatique congolaise) is an institute for training diplomats of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo inKinshasa. It was established in 2006 (19 years ago) (2006) to improve the quality of the DRC's diplomatic corps, graduating 200 civil servants by 2009.[1] The school cooperates with other institutions from abroad, including ones fromFrance,South Africa,[2]Russia,[3] and theNetherlands.[4]
The director of the academy, as of 2010, was Bonaventure Mpasi Makenga.[2] In 2019 the director was Pierre André Ngekene Bus-Mbul, and as of 2022 the director was Djuma Kauzeni Rashidi.[5][6]
Among the staff was Galina M. Sidorova, a Russian diplomat who taughtRussian language at the DRC Diplomatic Academy, currently working at the Institute of African Studies of theRussian Academy of Sciences.[7]