{{short description|Ugandan politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Betty Amongi | image = Hon Betty Amongi Ongom WE4D Launch WE4D Launch 2024-306 4.jpg | image_size = | caption = Amongi in 2024 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1975|11|15}} | birth_place = Oyam District, Uganda | birth_name = Betty Amongi Ongom | death_date = | death_place = | education = '''Makerere University'''<br/>(Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration)<br/>(Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies) | occupation = Politician | years_active = 1998–present | known_for = | networth = | title = Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development | spouse = {{Plainlist | * {{marriage|Jimmy Akena |2013}}}} }}
'''Betty Amongi Akena''', (née Betty Amongi Ongom), commonly known as '''Betty Amongi''' (born 15 November 1975) is a Ugandan politician. She is the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEW CABINET: Museveni drops Kutesa, 10 ministers|url=https://www.independent.co.ug/new-cabinet-museveni-drops-kutesa-10-ministers/|url-status=live|website=The Independent|date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609022748/https://www.independent.co.ug/new-cabinet-museveni-drops-kutesa-10-ministers/ |archive-date=9 June 2021 }}</ref> in the Cabinet of Uganda, as of 9 June 2021. Previously, she served as the Cabinet Minister of Kampala Capital City<ref name="AppR">{{cite web|date=14 December 2019 | url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Museveni-shuffles-Cabinet-drops-Muloni-Nadduli-Ssekandi/688334-5386130-139sq4lz/index.html |title=Museveni Shuffles Cabinet, Drops Muloni, Appoints Magyezi |newspaper=Daily Monitor |access-date=18 December 2019 |author=Monitor|place=Kampala}}</ref> and before that, from 6 June 2016 until 14 December 2019, as the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development in Uganda's cabinet.<ref>{{cite web |newspaper=Daily Monitor |author=Uganda State House |date=6 June 2016 |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/3235304/data/1345443/-/3o16hn/-/Museveni%2527s+cabinet.pdf |title=Museveni's new cabinet list At 6 June 2016 |access-date=7 June 2016 |location=Kampala |archive-date=7 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007121926/http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/3235304/data/1345443/-/3o16hn/-/Museveni%27s+cabinet.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> She is also the incumbent member of parliament representing the Oyam South Constituency in the 11th Parliament (2021 to 2026).
==Early life and education== Betty Amongi was born in Oyam District, Lango sub-region, in the Northern Region of Uganda, on 15 November 1975.<ref name="Profile">{{cite web | accessdate=8 November 2016 | url=http://www.parliament.go.ug/mp_database/profile.php?mid=427 | title=Parliament of Uganda Members of the 10th Parliament: Amongi Betty Ongom | date=October 2016 | publisher=Parliament of Uganda (POU) | last=POU | location=Kampala | archive-date=21 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321103317/http://www.parliament.go.ug/mp_database/profile.php?mid=427 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1996, she joined Makerere University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and public administration. Later in 2009, she was awarded a Master of Arts in International relations and Diplomatic studies.<ref name="Profile"/>
==Career== thumb|Left to right: A member of the Ugandan Parliament, Betty Amongi, the federal Minister for Women and Human Rights, Deeqa Yasin Yusuf, the Speaker of the House of the People, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, the Speaker of the Upper House Abdi Hashi Abdullahi and the UNDP Country Director for Somalia, George Conway, at the first Annual Somali women Parliamentarians conference in Mogadishu on April 24, 2017. UN Photo / Ilyas Ahmed Betty Amongi was first elected to parliament in 2001 as the woman member of parliament for Apac district and was re-elected in 2006 before being elected as the woman member for parliament for Oyam South in 2011 and 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jacob |first=Ocen |date=19 January 2021 |title=Uganda's 28 longest serving MPs in eleventh Parliament. |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/special-reports/elections/uganda-s-28-longest-serving-mps-in-eleventh-parliament--3262486 |access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> In a surprise move following the 20 February 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, President Yoweri Museveni of the ruling National Resistance Movement political party, named her Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, despite her affiliation to the opposition Uganda People's Congress.<ref>{{cite web|title=Uganda: Cabinet - How Museveni Got the Opposition In |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201606080891.html | accessdate=8 November 2016 | date= 8 June 2016 | newspaper=The Observer (Uganda) via AllAfrica.com | author=Sadab Kitatta Kaaya |location=Kampala}}</ref>
In a cabinet reshuffle on 14 December 2019, she was named cabinet minister of Kampala Capital City, switching dockets with Beti Kamya-Turwomwe, who took over at Lands, Housing and Urban Development.<ref name="AppR"/>
In June 2021, Amongi was appointed Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development in the new cabinet.
==Personal life== On 6 April 2013, Betty Amongi married Jimmy Akena, the member of Parliament for Lira Municipality and president of the opposition Uganda People's Congress. Jimmy Akena is the son of Milton Obote, the two-time former Prime Minister and President of Uganda. The traditional marriage took place in Minakulu sub-county, Oyam District and was attended by 32 members of parliament. President Yoweri Museveni, a friend of the couple, also attended the wedding.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1316931/mp-jimmy-akena-missing-rib-amongi | title=MP Jimmy Akena finds his missing rib in Amongi | accessdate=8 November 2016 | date=8 April 2013 | last=Chris Ocowun | first=and Bonney Odongo | newspaper=New Vision | location=Kampala | archive-date=16 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316023043/https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1316931/mp-jimmy-akena-missing-rib-amongi | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== * Cabinet of Uganda * Parliament of Uganda * Michael Moses Odongo Okune
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==External links== *[http://www.parliament.go.ug/ Website of the Parliament of Uganda] *[http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1436649/betty-amongi-obote-maruzi-country-deserves Betty Amongi, Obote’s Maruzi Country Deserves Much Better] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307001812/https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1436649/betty-amongi-obote-maruzi-country-deserves |date=7 March 2019 }} *[http://www.foiredjibouti.com/index.php/fr/participants-3/participant/bio-amongi Mini Bio] *[http://www.statehouse.go.ug/people/hon-betty-amongi Brief Biography]
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