Rodolphe Adada is a Congolese politician and diplomat. During the single-party rule of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT),he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Mines and Energy from 1977 to 1984,as Minister of Mines and Oil from 1984 to 1989,and as Minister of Secondary and Higher Education from 1989 to 1991. Later,he was Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Denis Sassou Nguesso from 1997 to 2007 and Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the African Union for Darfur from 2007 to 2009. He returned to the government of Congo-Brazzaville in 2009,serving as Minister of State for Industrial Development from 2009 to 2012,and as Minister of State for Transport from 2012 to 2016. He has been Ambassador to France since 2016.
Isidore Mvouba is a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 2005 to 2009. He is a member of the Congolese Labour Party and held key positions under President Denis Sassou Nguesso beginning in 1997.
Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Higher Education since 2016. Previously he was Director-General of the National Oil Company of Congo from 1998 to 2005,Minister of Energy and Hydraulics from 2005 to 2011,and Minister of Scientific Research from 2011 to 2016.
AiméEmmanuel Yoka is a Congolese politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of State for Justice from 2007 to 2016. Previously he was Director of the Cabinet of President Denis Sassou Nguesso from 2002 to 2007.
Firmin Ayessa is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Deputy Prime Minister for Civil Service,State Reform,Labour,and Social Security since 2017. As a long-time associate of President Denis Sassou Nguesso,Ayessa has held a series of key posts at the Presidency of Congo-Brazzaville;he was Director of the Civil Cabinet of the President from 1999 to 2002,deputy director of the Presidential Cabinet from 2002 to 2007,and he was Director of the Presidential Cabinet from 2007 to 2017.
Jeanne Dambendzet is a Congolese politician. She served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville from 1989 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2009. Since 2009 she has been the First Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council,a state institution. She is a member of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) and has been National Executive Secretary of the Women's Organization of Congo,the PCT's women's organization,since 2013.
Henri Djombo is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of State for Agriculture since 2016. Previously he was Minister of Water and Forests from 1980 to 1985 and Minister of the Forest Economy from 1997 to 2016. He is a member of the ruling Congolese Labour Party (PCT).
AndréOkombi Salissa is a Congolese politician. As a member of the ruling Congolese Labour Party (PCT),he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville from 1997 to 2012. He was also the President-Coordinator of the Action Committee for the Defense of Democracy - Youth Movement (CADD-MJ). After his dismissal from the government,he moved into opposition,becoming the President of the Initiative for Democracy in Congo and standing as a candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Jean-Claude Gakosso is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of the Republic of the Congo as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2015. Previously,he was Minister of Culture and the Arts from 2002 to 2015.
Henri Ossébi is a Congolese sociologist and politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Energy from 2011 to 2016. Previously he was Minister of Higher Education from 2002 to 2009 and Minister of Scientific Research from 2009 to 2011.
Euloge Landry Kolélas is a Congolese politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Trade from 2015 to 2017. Previously he was a Deputy in the National Assembly from 2007 to 2012. He is the President of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI),a political party,and has served as High Commissioner for the Reintegration of Former Combatants since 2017.
Jean-Pierre Nonault is a Congolese politician and diplomat. He was Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1974 to 1979 and Ambassador to France from 1979 to 1984. Since 2002,he has been a member of the Senate of Congo-Brazzaville.
Martial Mathieu Kani is a Congolese politician and academic. A leading member of the Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD),he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of the Tourist Industry and Leisure from September 2009 to September 2012.
Anatole Collinet Makosso has served as the prime minister of the Republic of the Congo since 2021. He has also served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education from 2015 to 2021,and as the Minister of Youth and Civic Instruction from 2011 to 2016.
René-Dambert Ndouane is a Congolese politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Tourism from 1997 to 1999 and as Minister of Labour from 1999 to 2002. He was Second Vice-President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and First Vice-President of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2017.
Clément Mouamba was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 2016 until 2021.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 16 July 2017,with a second round of voting following on 30 July in constituencies where no candidate secured a majority.
Rosalie Matondo is a Congolese agronomist and minister of the Forest Economy since May 7,2016. She was previously coordinator of the "National Program of Afforestation and Reforestation" (PRONAR) within the same Ministry (2011-2016),as well as adviser to the Head of State (2013-2016).
Antoinette Dinga Dzondo is a Congolese politician who was the Republic of the Congo's Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action from 2016 to 2021.
Destinée Hermella Doukaga is a politician,writer,and pilot in the Republic of the Congo. She is the leader of the Patriotic Front party and has served as minister of youth and civic education from 2016 to 2021,then minister of tourism from 2021 to 2022.
