After months of anticipation, the cabinet was made public at two in the morning on May 28th.

Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second term as president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in January, while Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tulukatook office in early April.

Suminwa's new government is made up of 54 members, including six deputy prime ministers, ten ministers of state, 24 ministers, four deputy ministers and ten vice-ministers.

One of the deputy-prime ministers is Jean-Pierre Bemba, who takes over the Ministry of Transport, while handing over the Ministry of Defense to Guy Kabombo Mwadiambita, a newcomer to the government.

Other noteworthy cabinet members include Guylain Nyembo, a former cabinet member of President Félix Tshisekedi, who now now heads the Ministry of Planning, and Jackmain Shabani, former special advisor to the president, who is now deputy prime minister in charge of the Interior.

Tuluka, 56, comes from Central Congo, the same province as the country's first democratically elected president, Joseph Kasavubu, who served between 1960 and 1965.

She has a master's degree in applied economics as well as a diploma for additional studies in human........

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