AIME BOJI SANGARA
Aimé Boji Sangara Bamanyirue is a Congolese politician who has served as the Minister of Budget for the Democratic Republic of the Congo since April 2021. Originally from the Walungu territory in South Kivu, he was elected as a National Deputy representing that territory in the National Assembly on the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) ticket from 2006 to 2019, and was re-elected in the same constituency during the 2023 general elections. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Trade from 2016 to 2017 in the government of Sammy Badibanga.
An economist by training, Aimé Boji Sangara Bamanyirue attended Collège Alfajiri in Bukavu; he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics, business administration, and management from Oxford Brookes University in England in 1994, and a master's degree in development economics in 1997 from the Refugee Studies Centre and the University of East Anglia, also in Great Britain. As a political figure, he served as Secretary General of the UNC for several years.