Bruno Tshibala
| Bruno Tshibala Nzenze | |
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| Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
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Assumed office 7 April 2017 |
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| President | Joseph Kabila |
| Preceded by | Samy Badibanga |
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| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) |
| Political party | Union for Democracy and Social Progress |
Bruno Tshibala Nzenze (born 1955) is a Congolese politician who has been Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since April 2017.
He began his political career while still a student in April 1980 at the age of 25 when he joined a leftist political party in Zaire during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko.
On 7 April 2017, President Joseph Kabila appointed him as Prime Minister during a nationwide televised address.
On 9 October 2016, he was arrested at Kinshasa International Airport when he was about to board a plane to Brussels and was held at Makala Central Prison. The Attorney General accused him of organizing demonstrations on 19 and 20 September 2016 in Kinshasa. He was later granted a provisional release on 29 November 2016.
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