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Georges Minsay Booka is a politician 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 ...
. He was Minister of Justice in the first and second cabinets of the Gizenga government, from February to November 2007. Georges Minsay Booka was named Justice Minister by President
Joseph Kabila Joseph Kabila Kabange ( , ; born 4 June 1971) is a Congolese politician who served as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between January 2001 and January 2019. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, Pres ...
in the government headed by Antoine Gizenga in February 2007 one of four members of Gizenga's
Unified Lumumbist Party Unified Lumumbist Party (french: Parti Lumumbiste Unifié or ''PALU'') is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The party's name comes from Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Congo after its independence in 1960 fr ...
(PALU) to be named to the cabinet. In 2007 there was an ownership dispute over the Kalukundi Mine when a DRC company named Akam Mining claimed it had bought control of Swanmines, the holding company, and this claim was upheld in a superior court in
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. This was an important test of the strength of property laws in the DRC and the security of foreign investment. In September 2007 the Canadian company Africo Resources said "third parties" were trying to steal its Kalukundi asset through the "systematic misuse of the judicial system". Later that month Georges Minsay Booka directed Gécamines to take note that Akam Mining had no stake in the property.


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