Aimé Boji Sangara Bamanyirue is a Congolese politician who has been Minister of Budget in the Cabinet of the

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since April 2021. He was a

Union for the Congolese Nation The Union for the Congolese Nation () is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded in 2010 by Vital Kamerhe, who was at the time a close ally of the former president Joseph Kabila. Kamerhe had previously served a ...

Member of the

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representing

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from 2006 to 2019, and was reelected in the same constituency at the 2023 general election. He was educated at Collège Alfajiri in

Bukavu Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River. It is the capital of the South Kivu P ...

Oxford Brookes University Oxford Brookes University (OBU; formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university, public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Th ...

(BSc Economics, Business Administration and Management, 1994), the

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, and the

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(MA Development Economics, 1997). He has been Permanent Secretary of the UNC's National Policy Directorate since 2011. He was formerly Congolese Minister of Foreign Trade. He was previously aligned to the

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. He is the brother-in-law of Vital Kamerhe.

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