Adrienne Ekila Liyonda (16 October 1948 – 23 June 2006) was a Zairean (now DRC) politician who served as ambassador to Belgium and was the country's first female Foreign minister.
She attended secondary school at the Lycée Sainte Marie-Theerèse before graduating from the Catholic University of Louvain with a Bachelor of Laws in 1974.
[2] She was appointed Secretary General of the nationalist unity party Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution in 1981.
[1] During the growing conflict of the 1990s, Liyonda became a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents and was the Federal President for Kinshasa.
[1] After the arrival of Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the AFDL in May 1997, she returned to live in Belgium.