Albert Ndele

Albert Ndele

Albert Ndele Mbamu (born August 15, 1930 in Boma ) is a Congolese politician.

Political career

Ndele studied economics at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium . In 1958 he graduated.

After the independence of the Congo from Belgium on June 30, 1960 , he worked in the Ministry of Finance during the government of Patrice Lumumba . In the Collège des Commissaires , a provisional government formed after Lumumba's overthrow and the first coup by Joseph-Désirée Mobutu on September 20, 1960 , he was commissioner for finances and initially chairman until October 3, 1960 , then deputy chairman. On February 9, 1961 , a regular government was formed again. He was assigned to the Binza group, which was in opposition to Lumumba. Prominent representatives were President Joseph Kasavubu and the later Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula . Ndele is said to have played a role behind the scenes in Lumumba's fall.

In 1961 he became governor of the central bank and remained in office until 1970. After a short career as a minister under the authoritarian president Mobutu Sese Seko, who had ruled authoritarian since 1965 , he left the country from September 1970 until his dismissal on November 12, 1970 . In the following years he was employed by the World Bank .

Since Mobutu's fall in 1997, Ndele has been part of the opposition to Presidents Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Joseph Kabila .

Web links

• Cabinet lists 1960 to 1990 (French)
• Glossary Albert Ndele
• Les dirigeants de la Banque Centrale du Congo de 1951 à nos jours ... , pp. 5-6. PDF; 709 kB (French)
• The Sunday Washington Post about Lumumba's end with mention Ndeles, July 21, 2002 (English)