Adélaïde Moundélé-Ngollo

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Yvonne Adélaïde Moundélé-Ngollo (born 1944[1][2]) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises since 2007. She was previously Director-General of from 1998 to 1999 and Minister of Trade from 2002 to 2007.

Political career[]

Moundélé-Ngollo was born in Brazzaville.[1][2] She is a daughter of , who was a member of the National Assembly and an ally of President Fulbert Youlou. Her first husband was Ange Diawara, a military officer and early leader of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) who was executed in 1973 for his role in the 1972 coup plot. She later married another politician, , who served as a government minister, as Mayor of Brazzaville, and as Prefect of Brazzaville.[3]

After holding high-level posts at Hydro-Congo, the national oil exploration and exploitation company[1][3] (including the post of Director of the Department of Studies and Planning from 1986 to 1994[1]), Moundélé-Ngollo was an Adviser to the Minister of Hydrocarbons from 1994 to 1998.[1][3] She also attended the as a delegate from Congo-Brazzaville in September 1995.[4] Moundélé-Ngollo was the Director-General of Hydro-Congo from December 1998 to December 1999. She later became a member of the National Executive Bureau of Club 2002,[1][2] which supports President Denis Sassou Nguesso and is led by his nephew, .[3]

After the May–June 2002 parliamentary election, Moundélé-Ngollo was appointed as Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Supplies on 18 August 2002,[1][5] and she succeeded Pierre-Damien Boussoukou Boumba in that position on 21 August.[6] In late 2002 and early 2003, she played a key role in peace initiatives regarding the Ninja rebellion, led by Pasteur Ntoumi; a peace agreement was signed on 17 March 2003, and she became a member of the Monitoring Committee of the Convention for Peace and National Reconstruction.[3]

In the June–August 2007 parliamentary election, Moundélé-Ngollo was elected to the National Assembly as the Club 2002 candidate in the first constituency of Mindouli, located in the Pool Region.[7] After placing second with 42.10% of the vote in the first round, she faced Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI) candidate Jean-Claude Massoba in the second round[8] and won the seat.[7] After the election, she was moved from her position as Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Supplies to that of Minister of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, in charge of the Craft Industry, on 30 December 2007.[5][9] Her alternate, , took up her seat in the National Assembly.[10]

Mpassi-Mouba died on 16 October 2009, thereby leaving the seat for Mindouli 1 vacant. To resume her seat in the National Assembly, it would have been necessary for Moundélé-Ngollo to resign from the government, and she apparently did not want to do so; consequently, a by-election was called for July 2010 to replace Mpassi-Mouba. Constitutionally, the matter was considered somewhat unclear, as the by-election was being called to replace an alternate while the titular deputy was still alive.[10] Moundélé-Ngollo stood again as a candidate in the by-election; because it was understood that she would remain in the government, her alternate was effectively the real candidate.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Who's Who", Congo Brazzaville: Les Hommes de Pouvoir, number 1, Africa Intelligence, 29 October 2002 (in French).
  2. ^ a b c Short biography[permanent dead link] at website of the Congolese Consulate in New Delhi.
  3. ^ a b c d e Cheikh Yérim Seck, "Yvonne Adélaïde Moundélé-Ngollo", Jeune Afrique, 7 September 2003 (in French).
  4. ^ Seth Faison, "Women's meeting agrees on right to say no to sex", Associated Press, 11 September 1995.
  5. ^ a b List of governments of Congo since 1999 Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine, izf.net (in French).
  6. ^ "Pierre-Damien Boussoukou Mboumba passe le témoin à Emile Mabondzot…" Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 23 August 2002 (in French).
  7. ^ a b "La liste complète des députés", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 11 August 2007 (in French). "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ Ya Sanza, "Législatives : La liste des duels du second tour", Congopage.com, 3 July 2007 (in French).
  9. ^ "Formation d’un nouveau gouvernement au Congo", Panapress, 31 December 2007 (in French).
  10. ^ a b Thierry Noungou, "Assemblée nationale : l'élection législative partielle dans la première circonscription de Mindouli se précise", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 9 June 2010 (in French).
  11. ^ Gankama N'Siah, "Le fait du jour - Une élection législative partielle test", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 5 July 2010 (in French).
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