Congolese Diplomatic Academy
The Congolese Diplomatic Academy (French: Académie diplomatique congolaise) is an institute for training diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa.It was established in 2006 to improve the quality of the DRC's diplomatic corps, graduating 200 civil servants by 2009.[1] The school cooperates with other institutions from abroad, including ones from France, South Africa,[2] Russia,[3] and the Netherlands.[4] The director of the academy, as of 2010, was Bonaventure Mpasi Makenga.[5][6] Among the staff was Galina M. Sidorova, a Russian diplomat who taught Russian language at the DRC Diplomatic Academy, currently working at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.