Fidèle Dimou (born 21 September 1957"La nouvelle organisation politico-administrative mise en place à Pointe-Noire et dans le Kouilou", ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 13 April 2006 . ) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Transport since 2017. Previously he was

Prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

Kouilou Department Kouilou ( kg, Kwilu, Kuilu ) is a department of the Republic of the Congo. Covering the country's coastline, it has an area of 13,650 square kilometres and at the start of 2007 it was home to about 91,955 people. The department borders Niar ...

from 2006 to 2017.

Life and career

Born in the

Mossaka District Mossaka is a district in the Cuvette Region of the Republic of the Congo. The capital lies at Mossaka. Towns and villages * Mossaka Mossaka is a town located in the Cuvette Department, Republic of the Congo. Located on the banks of the C ...

Cuvette Department Cuvette is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the central part of the country. It borders the departments of Cuvette-Ouest, Likouala, Plateaux, and Sangha, and internationally, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon. The capi ...

in 1957, Dimou was Director-General of the Civil Service from 1998 to 2004. Subsequently, he was chief of staff for the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court from 2004 to 2006, while also working as Consultant to the Secretariat-General of the Government during the same period. After the major city and port of

Pointe-Noire Pointe-Noire (; kg, Njinji, french: Ndjindji with the letter d following French spelling standards) is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, following the capital of Brazzaville, and an autonomous department since 2004. Before t ...

—which had been capital of Kouilou Department—was split off into its own department, the Prefect of Kouilou, Alexandre Honoré Paka, was moved to the newly created post of Prefect of Pointe-Noire, while Dimou was appointed to replace him as Prefect of Kouilou on 18 January 2006. Dimou was installed as prefect by the Minister of Territorial Administration,

François Ibovi François Ibovi is a Congolese politician who held a succession of key posts in the government of Congo-Brazzaville beginning in 1997. Closely associated with President Denis Sassou Nguesso, he was Minister of Communication from 1997 to 2002, Min ...

, at a ceremony held in

Madingo-Kayes Madingo-Kayes is a town lying at the mouth of the Kouilou River on the Atlantic Ocean of the Republic of the Congo. It lies on the edge of the coastal rainforest Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moistu ...

in April 2006. At the Sixth Extraordinary Congress of the

Congolese Labour Party The Congolese Party of Labour (french: Parti congolais du travail, PCT) is the ruling party of the Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1969 by Marien Ngouabi, it was originally a pro-Soviet, Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist vanguard party w ...

(PCT), held in July 2011, Dimou was elected to the PCT's 471-member Central Committee. After more than 11 years as Prefect of Kouilou, Dimou was appointed to the government as Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation and the Merchant Marine on 22 August 2017.Trésor Kibangula
"Congo-Brazzaville : ce qu’il faut retenir du gouvernement Clément Mouamba 2"
''Jeune Afrique'', 23 August 2017 .

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Republic of the Congo politicians Living people 1957 births People from Cuvette Department {{RCongo-politician-stub