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Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba is a Congolese politician who was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 2019, formally establishing his government in August 2019. He has had a long political career going back to the 1970s, having held a number of ministerial cabinet posts, and was previously a professor at the University of Kinshasa since 1979. Ilunga has also b…
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politics · Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo · economist · politician · minister · also Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre, Sylvestre Ilunga, Ilunga ilunkamba, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, Sylvestre
Born 28 March 1947 · Q63967715
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Young people make up the vast majority of the Congolese community. But everyone expects the State to provide work. However, the State cannot provide jobs for everyone. The State regulates, but the private sector implements. The investments needed to develop the country are made in partnership with the private sector. That is why we say that young people must learn to be entrepreneurs.
These women are unable to afford even a small phone to report a distressing situation they may find themselves in, but also because they can use it to organize their small businesses for their families' survival. If only we could focus our attention on these girls caught between gunfire and those languishing in refugee and displaced persons camps, unable to go to school to take part in all the innovations and opportunities offered by digital development.
“Young people make up the vast majority of the Congolese community. But everyone expects the State to provide work. However, the State cannot provide jobs for everyone. The State regulates, but the private sector implements. The investments needed to develop the country are made in partnership with the private sector. That is why we say that young people must learn to be entrepreneurs.”
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“These women are unable to afford even a small phone to report a distressing situation they may find themselves in, but also because they can use it to organize their small businesses for their families' survival. If only we could focus our attention on these girls caught between gunfire and those languishing in refugee and displaced persons camps, unable to go to school to take part in all the innovations and opportunities offered by digital development.”
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More than six months after the 2018 election, beginning Ilunga's formal nomination for Prime Minister
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019–2021).
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As the head of the SNCC, the national railway company of DR Congo
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Published “Targeted disruption of the mouse colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor gene results in osteopetrosis, mononuclear phagocyte deficiency, increased primitive progenitor cell frequencies, and reproductive defects” in Blood — cited 989 times.
Published “PAHs in the Fraser River basin: a critical appraisal of PAH ratios as indicators of PAH source and composition” in Organic Geochemistry — cited 3,795 times.
Published “FcR γ chain deletion results in pleiotrophic effector cell defects” in Cell — cited 756 times.
Published “Self Modeling Curve Resolution” in Technometrics — cited 788 times.
And held various government offices throughout the 1980s and 1990s, notably the cabinet posts of Minister of Planning (1990) and Minister of Finance (1990–1991) under the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko
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Born 1947-03-28.
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In the Katanga Province (today Haut-Katanga Province since the 2015 partition)
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