Victor Koumorico

Victor Koumorico
President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In office
July 1961 – November 1962
Deputy Isaac Kalonji
Preceded by Joseph Iléo
Succeeded by Isaac Kalonji
President of Lac Léopold II Province
In office
September 1962 – December 1963
Succeeded by Gabriel Zangabie
Personal details
Died 22 June 1966
Léopoldville, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Political party UNILAC (Parti National du Progrès)

Victor Koumorico (also spelled Kumoriko or Komoriko) (died 22 June 1966) was a Congolese politician who served as President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from July 1961 until November 1962.

Biography

Victor Koumorico participated in the East African Campaign of World War I in German East Africa as a member of the Force Publique.[1]

Political career

In the first elections of the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) in 1960, Koumorico was elected as both a national deputy of the Oshwe Territory of the Lac Léopold II District and as a senator, serving on behalf of the UNILAC party. At the time he was the oldest member of the Senate. He withdrew his mandate as a deputy.[2] Koumorico led a delegation to Élisabethville in early 1961 to negotiate with the leaders of the secessionist State of Katanga on behalf of the central government of the Congo.[3] He participated in the Coquilhatville Conference in May 1961. In July at the Lovanium Conclave Koumorico was elected President of the Senate.[2] He served in the role until November 1962.[4] He also served as the first president of the new Lac Léopold II Province from September 1962 until December 1963[5] (he terminated his senate mandate to focus on his provincial responsibilities[6]). On 30 May 1964 Koumorico was appointed extraordinary commissionaire for Kivu Central and tasked with overseeing the central government's efforts to restore order in the region in the midst of the Simba rebellion.[7]

After suffering from a long illness, Koumorico died in Léopoldville on 22 June 1966.[8]

Citations

  1. ↑ Young 2015, p. 280.
  2. 1 2 CRISP 1961, NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUES.
  3. ↑ CRISP 1961, II - LES TENTATIVES DE REUNIFICATION ET DE LEGITIMATION.
  4. ↑ Mwanyimi-Mbomba 1985, p. 81.
  5. ↑ Mwanyimi-Mbomba 1985, p. 87.
  6. ↑ Bonyeka 1992, p. 401.
  7. ↑ CRISP 1965, p. 71.
  8. ↑ Gerard-Libois & Verhaegen 2015, p. 332.

References

  • Bonyeka, Bomandeke (1992). Le Parlement congolais sous le régime de la Loi fondamentale (in French). Kinshasa: Presses universitaire du Zaire. OCLC 716913628.
  • Congo 1964 (in French). Brussels: Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques. 1965. OCLC 16518788.
  • Gerard-Libois, Jules; Verhaegen, Benoit (2015). Congo 1965: Political Documents of a Developing Nation (in French) (reprint ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400875436.
  • Makombo, Mutamba (1998). Du Congo belge au Congo indépendant, 1940-1960: émergence des "évolués" et genèse du nationalisme (in French). Kinshasa: Institut de formation et d'études politiques. OCLC 52312642.
  • "Onze mois de crise politique au Congo". Courrier hebdomadaire du CRISP (in French). Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques (120): 1–24. 1961. doi:10.3917/cris.120.0001.
  • Young, M. Crawford (2015). Politics in Congo: Decolonization and Independence (reprint ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-7857-4.
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