Dolly Makambo Nawezi

Dolly Makambo Nawezi is a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has served as mayor of La Gombe in the Kinshasa province since 2008.

Makambo lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for several years. He ran for election to the Montreal city council as an independent candidate in the 2001 municipal election and was defeated. In the late 2000s, he was a Canadian representative of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy founded by Congolese president Joseph Kabila.^[1]

Makambo Nawezi was appointed as mayor of La Gombe by President Kabila on 24 September 2008.^[2]

In March 2011, Makambo Nawezi inaugurated a memorial to Mpongo Love, a Congolese singer who disappeared in 1990.^[3]

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Canada

References

1. ^ "Le comité Pprd/Canada félicite la vice-ministre chargée des Congolais de l’étranger désormais voix officielle de la diaspora", digitalcongo.net, 13 February 2007, accessed 17 July 2011.
2. ^ "Un oiseau rare à la commune de la Gombe", digitalcongo.net, 12 December 2008, accessed 17 July 2011; "Nommés par Ordonnances présidentielles: voici les nouveaux bourgmestres des 24 communes de la ville de Kinshasa", La Conscience, 25 septembre 2008, accessed 17 July 2011.
3. ^ "RDC - Journée de la femme : Un mausolée érigé à la mémoire de Mpongo LOVE au cimetière de la Gombe", Star du Congo, 19 March 2011, accessed 17 July 2011.

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