Early life and education
Daniel Owassa was born in Fort-Rousset (now Owando),Republic of the Congo. [1] He is the son of Barnabas Owassa,a local chieftain,and Simone Abango. He completed his primary and secondary education in Owando and Makoua,earning his high school diploma baccalauréat in 1979.
He obtained a degree in sociology from Marien Ngouabi University in 1982,and a postgraduate diploma in sociology of development in 1983. [1] In 1988,he received a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford,where he earned a diploma in Diplomatic Studies in 1989. [1] His dissertation,titled National Leadership in Africa:The Statistics of Political (In)stability 1960–1988,was published in 2017 and republished in 2019. [3]
Career
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Owassa joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984. He served as head of the East and Southern Africa Section (1986–1987),head of the Organization of African Unity Section (1987–1988),and special adviser (1989–1990). He was diplomatic attachéto President Denis Sassou-Nguesso (1990–1992) and later diplomatic adviser to Prime Minister (1993–1996). [1]
Secretary of State
On 2 September 1996,Daniel Owassa entered the Charles David Ganao government as Secretary of State to the Minister of Public Service and Territorial Administration,in charge of reforms and administrative simplification. [4] [1] He held this position until the outbreak of the June 5,1997 civil war.
Return to diplomacy
In 2000,he became diplomatic adviser to then Foreign Minister Rodolphe Adada. On 3 May 2005,he was appointed Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,a position he held until 2012. [1]
Diplomatic career abroad
In April 2012,Owassa was appointed by the president of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso Ambassador of Congo to the People's Republic of China. [5] He was also accredited to Vietnam,Cambodia,Laos,Mongolia,Thailand,the Philippines,South Korea,North Korea,Myanmar,Pakistan,and Singapore. [6] He served in this role until June 2021.
In November 2021,he was appointed Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. [7] His jurisdiction also includes Djibouti and Eritrea. [8] In June 2022 and October 2023,he served as rotating chair of the African Union Peace and Security Council. [9] [10] He represented the Republic of the Congo in formally depositing its instrument of accession to the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC). [11]
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