Kandia Camara

Kandia Camara (born 17 June 1959) is an Ivorian teacher and politician who is the President of the Senate of Ivory Coast since 12 October 2023.

She is a professional handball player and was part of the ASC Bouaké team that won African Cup of Champion Clubs in 1981.

She was secretary general of the national office of the Union des femmes du PDCI (UFPDCI) and a municipal councillor at the town hall of Cocody  between 1990 and 1994.

In 1994, she became the Secretary General of the Rassemblement des Femmes Républicaines (RFR) until 1998 when she assumed the office of the national president of the organisation before resigning in May 2006.

[8] Camara became Deputy mayor of the Municipality of Abobo in 2001 and served in this office until 2003, when she was appointed Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Government of National Reconciliation and Transition and remained in this position until 2010.