Franck Mwe di Malila

Franck Mwe di Malila (born 22 January 1968) was a Congolese politician and adviser to the former Senate president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Léon Kengo Wa Dondo. As of Mai 2019 he was serving as intérim vice-Prime Minister and deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. He previously served as Deputy Minister of International Relations and National Integration as well as Deputy Minister of Planning and as Minister of Tourism.

Family He is a descendant of the (Mwe di) Malila family, among the most notable families in Kinshasa, Bas-Congo and Cabinda.

Biography

Childhood Malila grew up in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Belgium. He was raised by his father, the congolese businessman, estate owner, president of the Woyo Alliance and Football official of the L'AS Dragon, Edouard Lendje Héritier Mwe di Malila Apenela. He attended the primary school Lycée Français de Kinshasa and then went to the Ecole des Carrières in Soignies (Belgium). Later he studied humanities at the College of Saint Vincent in Soignies. At the CERIA in Brussels he graduated with the diploma in business administration, organization and development.

Deputy-minister of international relations and national integration On 7 December he was nominated as the deputy minister of international relations and national integration by Congo's current president Joseph Kabila.

Additional information Malila, is currently in a major dispute with his family and his other, 15 siblings. The subject of the argument is the properties of his on 7 June deceased father, Edouard Mwe di Malila Apenela, who left his numerous children a large estate empire after his death. At the public hearing on 4 February the Supreme Court of Kinshasa Gombe made a judgment, which only acknowledges four children of Edouard Mwe di Malila, as legitimate heirs of which one is Malila. The 15 other potential heirs appealed against the decision demanding to set the judgment aside. The quartet, to which Franck Malila belongs to, is accused of defrauding the basis of the documents on which the Court based their judgment on. At a council meeting on 7 August 19 children were identified as legitimate heirs and it was decided that the four eldest brothers were merely temporarily obliged as representatives of the remaining siblings. The committee decided that they had six months to create an inventory. After this period, the quartet did not feel obliged to the agreements and decided to no compromising with the other siblings. One of the lawyers of the plaintiffs wrote a complaint with the argument that the judgment made on 4 February did not obtain this unanimous agreement.