Aminata Namasia Bazego (born March 10, 1993, in Dingila) is a politician and member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Parliament, appointed Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education since April 2021.

Biography

Education

Aminata Namasia was born on March 10, 1993, in Dingila in the province of Bas-Uélé in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. She did her primary studies at the Golpas School Complex. In 2017, she obtained a diploma in

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from the faculty of

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and economics of the Protestant University in the Congo (UPC).

Political career

Member of the Congolese Development Party, Aminata Namasia was elected national deputy in the constituency of

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, in the province of Bas-Uélé, during the legislative elections of December 30, 2018 in the

. On December 8, 2020, following the fall of the Office of the National Assembly, in accordance with its internal regulations, the oldest deputy, accompanied by two youngest members of Parliament, took over the management of the Office, with the mission of organizing and electing a new bureau. Aminata Namasia, the youngest sitting member of the

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of the Congolese parliament alongside Gael Bussa, is appointed

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of the

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. On April 12, 2021, she was appointed

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Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education in the

under Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde's

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Aminata Namasia Foundation

Aminata Namasia is the

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of a foundation, named after her name, and whose

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is located in the territory of Bambesa in the

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of the

. Created in 2016, the foundation's field of action is the

education of young girls Female education is a catch-all term of a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. It is frequently called girls ...

, the promotion of school

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s, the empowerment of women and the promotion of

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in rural areas.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Namasia, Aminata Members of the National Assembly (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 1983 births Living people People from Kinshasa People from Bas-Uélé 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people

Biography

Education

Political career

Aminata Namasia Foundation

See also

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