Philomène Omatuku Atshakawo Akatshi is a politician from 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 ...
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Career
She served as Minister for Women's Affairs in 2007 under 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 ...
and Prime Minister
Antoine Gizenga
Antoine Gizenga (5 October 1925 – 24 February 2019) was a Congolese (DRC) politician who was the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 30 December 2006 to 10 October 2008. He was the Secretary-General of the Unified Lumum ...
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In Gizenga's second cabinet she held the post of "Ministre de Genre, de la Famille et de l'Enfant": Minister for Gender, the Family and the Child.
See also
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Christophe Mboso N'Kodia Pwanga
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Jeannine Mabunda
Jeanine Mabunda (born 10 April 1964) is a Congolese lawyer and politician who in 2019 became the first woman elected to lead the Democratic Republic of the Congo's National Assembly. She was impeached on December 10, 2020, through a democratic vot ...
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Gabriel Kyungu wa Kumwanza
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Women government ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ministers for Women's Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo women politicians
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo politicians
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