Congolese Diplomatic Academy

The Congolese Diplomatic Academy (French: Académie diplomatique congolaise) is an institute for training diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa. It was established in 2006 to improve the quality of the DRC's diplomatic corps, graduating 200 civil servants by 2009.[1] The school cooperates with other institutions from abroad, including ones from France, South Africa,[2] Russia,[3] and the Netherlands.[4]

The director of the academy, as of 2010, was Bonaventure Mpasi Makenga.[2] In 2019 the director was Pierre André Ngekene Bus-Mbul, and as of 2022 the director was Djuma Kauzeni Rashidi.[5][6]

Among the staff was Galina M. Sidorova, a Russian diplomat who taught Russian language at the DRC Diplomatic Academy, currently working at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[7]

References
  1. Une académie diplomatique pour en finir avec le « diplomate improvisé » (in French). Jeune Afrique. Published 24 July 2009. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. Training on Results Based Management at the Congolese Diplomatic Academy. United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Published November 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  3. Strategic Analysis: Russian Business Activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Abstract). RWR Advisory Group. Published 17 May 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  4. Capacity Building for Diplomatic Academies. Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  5. "Young Congolese diplomats deem Turkish training to be beneficial". DigitalCongo.net. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  6. "Kinshasa: Ambassador Jevtić visits the Director of the Congolese Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of DR Congo". Republic of Serbia - Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  7. Galina M. SIDOROVA. Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

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