Justine Kasa-Vubu
| Justine Kasa-Vubu | |
|---|---|
| minister of the Civil Service | |
| President | Laurent-Désiré Kabilay |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 April 1951 Léopoldville |
| Nationality | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Political party | Union by the Democracy and the Social Progress |
| Other political affiliations | Mouvement des Démocrates |
| Alma mater |
Catholic University of Louvain, Free University of Brussels |
Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu (Léopoldville, today Kinshasa, 14 April 1951), is a Congolese politician, President of the Movement of the Congolese Democrats.
Life
She is the daughter of Joseph Kasa-Vubu,[1] the one who was first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was candidate in the Congolese presidential elections of July 2006, in which she only obtained the 0.44% of the votes in the first round.[2]
After the death of his father and the taking of the power by Mobutu Sese Seko, she went into exile together with the rest of his family to first 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 the natural disasters and in the Centre of African studies of the Free University of Brussels (ULB).[3]
In 1991, she joined the Union by the Democracy and the 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 Kabilay.[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
- ↑ Turner, Thomas (2007-06-15). The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality. Zed Books. ISBN 9781842776896.
- ↑ "Cas de Justine KASA-VUBU : La jeunesse congolaise appelée à tenir aux convictions pour éviter des erreurs". afrique.kongotimes.info. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- 1 2 Kisangani, Emizet Francois; Bobb, Scott F. (2009-10-01). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810863255.
- ↑ Prunier, Gerard (2011-04-02). Africas World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199705832.
- ↑ "RDC : Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu "réceptive" aux concertations nationales". afrikarabia2.blogs.courrierinternational.com. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
External links
 Justine Kasa-Vubu, TV5Monde, 19 Janvier 2014 |
- http://www.voiceofcongo.net/rdc-justine-kasa-vubu-met-en-garde-le-pgr-kabange-numbi-sur-lapplication-de-larticle-64
- http://www.congonline.com/Politiq/PerJustine.htm
- https://emmanuel1ngeleka.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/justine-kasa-vubu-triste-fin-dune-femme-tres-pressee/
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.