2025 Ministers

Hon. Gwede Mantashe

Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Republic of South Africa

Hon. Diamantino Azevedo

Minister of Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas Republic of Angola

Hon. Bogolo Kenewendo

Minister of Minerals and Energy Republic of Botswana

Hon. Professor Fuh Calistus Gentry

Minister of Mines, Industries and Technological Development Republic of Cameroon

Hon. Rufin Benam Beltoungou

Minister of Mines and Geology Central African Republic

Hon. Ndolenodji Alixe Naimbaye

Minister of Petroleum, Mines & Geology Republic of Chad

Hon. Mamadou Sangafowa-Coulibaly

Minister of Mines, Oil & Energy Republic of Côte d’Ivoire

H.E. Kizito Pakabomba Kapinga Mulume

Minister of Mines Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hon. Louis Watum

Minister of Industry and the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hon. Antonio Oburu Ondo

Minister of Hydrocarbons and Mining Development Republic of Equatorial Guinea

The minister Antonio oburu ondo has a degree in Business Administration and Management, Specializing in Business Economic Theory from the University of País Vasco in Spain, and a Master's degree in Financial Markets. He also has several Diplomas in crude oil market, International Law and International Relations. He has held the position as Director General of GePetrol, local company of petroleum from 2014 to 2023. Being the director of GePetrol, he focused all his efforts on generating greater income for the state, diversifying the company's business portfolio with the objective of converting GePetrol as the national leader in the presentation of services in the oil industry, as well as an important agent of social transformation in Equatorial Guinea.

The training of nationals and the transfer of technology are priorities for H.E minister, who is actively involved in the most important scholarship program in the country with students located all over the world, as well as in offering internships to finalist students located from the national university of Equatorial Guinea (UNGE). At the level of GePetrol employees, He was able to establish an English language teaching program for all employees.

Currently, now, the Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, where he thinks to do and work in the same way using the same dynamism to achieve government highlights in this department of mines and hydrocarbons which was granted to him  last February 2023.

Hon. Bouna Sylla

Minister of Mines and Geology Republic of Guinea

Hon. Djiba Diakité

Minister Director of Cabinet Republic of Guinea

Hon. Malam Sambu

Minister of Natural Resources Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Hon. Wilmot J.M. Paye

Minister of Mines and Energy Republic of Liberia

H.E. Thiam Tidjani

Minister of Mines and Industry Islamic Republic of Mauritania

Hon. Dr Oladele Henry Alake

Minister of Solid Minerals Development Federal Republic of Nigeria

Writer, author and a seasoned media professional, Mr. Oladele Alake, the Honourable Minister of Solid Minerals was the Honourable Commissioner for Information & Strategy in Lagos, Nigeria's most industrial and cosmopolitan state between 1999 and 2007.

In that capacity, he was involved in formulating the strategic and tactical initiatives which made the administration of Nigeria's president, Bola Tinubu, then the Governor of Lagos State to record outstanding achievements. These marked its record of excellence in industry, finance, education, health, employment and community development.

Among the celebrated achievements of the administration are the computerisation of government operations, environmental reforms, Bar Beach reclamation project, increase in revenue generation from N600 million to N7 billion in eight years, N15 billion rehabilitation of the Lagos Island Business District, Lagos Independent Power Project, construction of millennium schools, establishment of new general hospitals, construction of highways and inner city roads, introduction of the Bus Rapid Transfer system and massive employment of youths.

Born October 6, 1956, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and a Master's in Mass Communications from the prestigious University of Lagos, Nigeria.

A statesman par excellence gifted with the Midas touch to transform organizations and systems, Alake has been instrumental to the establishment and development of many media organizations, including Lagos Television, The Nation Newspaper, Television Continental (TVC), Max FM station, Adaba FM, and National Life.

Widely travelled and acknowledged as an influential and prodigious political communications guru, Alake rose to the pinnacle of his career as a journalist at the Concord Press of Nigeria, where he was the Editor of Sunday Concord and National Concord newspapers at various times. 

He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors and a former Vice President of the Guild.

He was a Consultant on Public Affairs to the African Finance Corporation, AFC, chairman of Statedgemax, a public relations firm, and director of Gravitas, a media company.

Until he was appointed the Honourable Minister, he was the Special Adviser on Strategy, Communications & Special Duties to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu

Minister of Steel Development Federal Republic of Nigeria

Mr Francis Kamanzi

Chief Executive Officer Republic of Rwanda

Hon. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Minister of Electricity and Energy Republic of South Africa

Hon. Paul Kabuswe

Minister of Mines and Minerals Development Republic of Zambia

Hon. Winston Chitando

Minister of Mines and Mining Development Republic of Zimbabwe