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Congolese politician
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She began her political career in Kinshasa at the age of 23, assuming the function of Bourgmestre (Mayor) of the commune of Gombe, Kinshasa.
She was Provincial Commissioner, Vice-Governor of the City of Kinshasa, Governor of the Province of Bas-Zaire from 1972 to 1974, and Governor of the City of Kinshasa.
She was the vice president and then the leader of Mobutu's Popular Movement of the Revolution party. In 2006, she was a presidential candidate, representing the MPR. After the opening of Zaire to democracy in 1990, until the fall of the regime, she was Private Adviser to the Head of State.
Because of this past, she was imprisoned for 20 months after Laurent-Désiré Kabila took power in 1997.
She is the head of several commercial and real estate companies. She also owns a television channel. She chairs several NGOs for the promotion of women and the supervision of women traders.