Victoire Ndikumana

Victoire Ndikumana (born 1957) is a Burundian politician for the UPRONA party. She was Minister of Women's Advancement and Social Protection from 1991 to 1993, and Minister of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism from 2010 to 2014.

Life

Victoire Ndikumana was born into a Tutsi family in Menyi, the daughter of Emile Ndikumana and Augusta Gahimbare. She was educated at the University of Burundi. In 1979 she married Daniel Sejiji, with whom she has two sons and one daughter.[1]

From 1991 to 1993 Ndikumana was Minister of Women's Advancement and Social Protection.[1] In the 1993 election, the first multi-party parliamentary elections since 1965, she was elected MP representing Cankuzo Province, as one of 16 UPRONA MPs.[2] After the outbreak of the Burundian Civil War in 1993, Ndikumana called on Burundian women to take part in civil society and restore an emphasis on peaceful social values over violence.[3] In 1996 Ndikumana was against United Nations proposals to send a standby peacekeeping force to neighboring Zaire:

Such a force, which will contribute to the divisions between Burundians, should not be tried. We don’t know what this force will do, [but] in Central Africa and Somalia, we have never seen what this [U.N.] force could achieve.[4]

Ndikumana served as Treasurer of the AMANI Forum.[5]

In August 2010 Ndikumana was one of three UPRONA MPs appointed to be ministers in President Pierre Nkurunziza's power-sharing government, when she was appointed Minister of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism.[6] She saw it as a priority to address Burundi's trade deficit by increasing imports.[7] In February 2014 Nkurunziza and the other two UPRONA ministers resigned their ministerial positions. They objected to Nkurunziza's sacking of his UPRONA vice-president, Bernard Busokoza,[8] and to efforts by the ruling CNDD-FDD party to replace Charles Nditjie, UPRONA party chairman, with someone more sympathetic to CNDD-FDD before the 2015 elections.[9]

In 2012 Ndikumana received an International Women's Day Women Achiever Award from the Institute of South Asian Women (ISAW).[10]

Works

References
  1. Elizabeth Sleeman (2001). "Ndikumana, Victoire". The International Who's Who of Women 2002. Psychology Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3.
  2. "Le 21 Octobre 1993, l'Armée Burundaise Tutsi tue le Président Ndadaye". burundi-agnews.org. 7 October 2000. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. Zdenek Cervenka; Colin Legum (November 1994). "Le Dialogue National Peut-il Briser la Puissance de la Terreur au Burundi?" (PDF). Institut Scandinave des Etudes Africaines d'Uppsala. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  4. Farhan Haq (30 January 1996). "Burundi: U.N. Moves Ahead While Politicians Bicker". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  5. "The Role of Parliaments in the National Reconciliation Process in Africa" (PDF). 2005. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  6. Jamila El Abdellaoui (14 October 2010). "Burundi: Overview of the 2010 elections and observations on the way forward" (PDF). Institute for Security Studies. p. 8. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  7. "Stepping up Trade and Adding Value". The European Times. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  8. Patrick Nduwimana (6 February 2014). "Three ministers quit Burundi government in constitutional row". Reuters. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  9. "Political crisis in Burundi as Tutsi ministers quit". Times Live. 5 February 2014.
  10. "IWD Awards". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
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