Editing Rodolphe Adada (section)

{{short description|Congolese politician and diplomat}}
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[[File:Rodolphe Adada - 2005 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Rodolphe Adada in 2005.]]
'''Rodolphe Adada''' (born 24 April 1946) is a [[Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] politician and diplomat. During the single-party rule of the [[Congolese Labour Party]] (PCT), he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Mines and Energy from 1977 to 1984, as Minister of Mines and Oil from 1984 to 1989, and as Minister of Secondary and Higher Education from 1989 to 1991. Later, he was [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Republic of the Congo)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] under President [[Denis Sassou Nguesso]] from 1997 to 2007 and Joint Special Representative of the [[United Nations]] and the [[African Union]] for [[Darfur]] from 2007 to 2009. He returned to the government of Congo-Brazzaville in 2009, serving as Minister of State for Industrial Development from 2009 to 2012, and as Minister of State for Transport from 2012 to 2016. He has been Ambassador to France since 2016.