Freddy KITA BUKUSU

Freddy Kita Bukusu, born in 1965, is a politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was vice-minister of international cooperation from 2017 to 2019, then vice-minister of planning since September 2019.

He is also the founder and moral authority of the People's Movement for Social Progress, a Kino-Congolese political party founded in 2017.

Freddy Kita began a political career at the age of 20. Hostile to the regime of President Mobutu Sese Seko, he joined various student movements defending the values ​​of Christian democracy.

He has been an international speaker on the themes of peace, democracy and security since 2010. He is the co-founder and coordinator of the monitoring committee of the Pan-African Initiative for the Defense of Democracy (IPDD).

Subsequently, he is co-founder and signatory of the Genval act in Belgium of commitment of the political and social forces acquired with the change forming a Rally with Étienne Tshisekedi.

During the 2016 political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he was one of the negotiators and signatories of the so-called New Year's Eve agreement, providing for the withdrawal of President Joseph Kabila6 and the appointment of an opposition government. Bruno Tshibala who becomes Prime Minister, appoints him Minister for International Cooperation. Close to Bruno Tshibala, he is considered to be his right arm.

He was made a grand knight of peace on July 25, 2015 in Assisi (Italy).

He was appointed on August 26, 2019, Deputy Minister of Planning in the government of Sylvestre Ilunga.

Freddy Kita takes office as Deputy Minister for International Cooperation in the Tshibala Government on May 18, 2017.

He went on June 11, 2018 with Bruno Tshibala to Montreal to participate in the International Economic Forum of the Americas in order to promote investment as well as public-private partnerships in the DRC.11 At the end of this tour he notably won promises from investment of nearly 300 million euros.

He takes part in the African ministerial conference on March 25, 2019 on the support of the African Union (AU) to the United Nations political process on the conflict in Western Sahara, organized in Marrakech in Morocco. He called in particular for strict compliance with all decisions of the United Nations and the African Union in order to settle this Sahara crisis once and for all.

Freddy Kita was appointed Vice-Minister of Planning on August 26, 2019, and took office on September 9, 2019. As soon as he takes office, he becomes involved in the fight against poverty, in this capacity he allows the return of collaboration between the Salvation Army and the Congolese government.

He leads a round table with the World Health Organization on the problem of the response to HIV and AIDS among Congolese adolescents and young people, he advocates the democratization of the means of prevention in all the provinces of the country in order to overcome the 'epidemic.