Yvonne Adélaïde Moundélé-Ngollo (born 1944[1][2]) is a Congolese political figure, currently serving in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, in charge of the Craft Industry. She was previously Director-General of Hydro-Congo from 1998 to 1999 and was Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Supplies from 2002 to 2007.
Moundélé-Ngollo was born in Brazzaville.[1][2] She is a daughter of Édouard Mougany, who was a member of the National Assembly and an ally of President Fulbert Youlou. Her first husband was Ange Diawara, a military officer and early leader of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) who was executed in 1973 for his role in a coup plot. She later married another politician, Benoît Moundélé-Ngollo, who served as a government minister, as Mayor of Brazzaville, and as Prefect of Brazzaville.[3]
After holding high-level posts at Hydro-Congo, the national oil exploration and exploitation company[1][3] (including the post of Director of the Department of Studies and Planning from 1986 to 1994[1]), Moundélé-Ngollo was an Adviser to the Minister of Hydrocarbons from 1994 to 1998.[1][3] She also attended the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women as a delegate from Congo-Brazzaville in September 1995.[4] Moundélé-Ngollo was the Director-General of Hydro-Congo from December 1998 to December 1999. She later became a member of the National Executive Bureau of Club 2002,[1][2] which supports President Denis Sassou Nguesso and is led by his nephew, Willy Sassou Nguesso.[3]
After the May–June 2002 parliamentary election, Moundélé-Ngollo was appointed as Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Supplies on 18 August 2002,[1][5] and she succeeded Pierre-Damien Boussoukou Boumba in that position on 21 August.[6] In late 2002 and early 2003, she played a key role in peace initiatives regarding the Ninja rebellion, led by Pasteur Ntoumi; a peace agreement was signed on 17 March 2003, and she became a member of the Monitoring Committee of the Convention for Peace and National Reconstruction.[3]
In the 2007 parliamentary election, Moundélé-Ngollo was elected to the National Assembly as the Club 2002 candidate in the first constituency of Mindouli, located in the Pool Region.[7] After placing second with 42.10% of the vote in the first round, she faced Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI) candidate Jean-Claude Massoba in the second round[8] and won the seat.[7] After the election, she was moved from her position as Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Supplies to that of Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, in charge of the Craft Industry, on 30 December 2007.[5][9] Her alternate, Auguste Mpassi-Mouba, took up her seat in the National Assembly.[10]
Mpassi-Mouba died on 16 October 2009, thereby leaving the seat for Mindouli 1 vacant. To resume her seat in the National Assembly, it would have been necessary for Moundélé-Ngollo to resign from the government, and she apparently did not want to do so; consequently, a by-election was called for July 2010 to replace Mpassi-Mouba. Constitutionally, the matter was considered somewhat unclear, as the by-election was being called to replace an alternate while the titular deputy was still alive.[10] Moundélé-Ngollo stood again as a candidate in the by-election; because it was understood that she would remain in the government, her alternate was effectively the real candidate.[11]