{{Short description|Burundian politician}} '''Victoire Ndikumana''' (born 1957) is a Burundian politician for the UPRONA party. She was Minister of Women's Advancement and Social Protection from 1991 to 1993, and Minister of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism from 2010 to 2014.
==Life== Victoire Ndikumana was born into a Tutsi family in Monyi, the daughter of Emile Ndikumana and Augusta Gahimbare. She was educated at the University of Burundi. In 1979 she married Daniel Sejiji, with whom she has two sons and one daughter and 2 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.<ref name="Sleeman2001">{{cite book|author=Elizabeth¹ Sleeman|title=The International Who's Who of Women 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J8xDWDqOkEC&pg=PA400|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-122-3|page=400|chapter=Ndikumana, Victoire}}</ref>
From 1991 to 1993 Ndikumana was Minister of Women's Advancement and Social Protection.<ref name="Sleeman2001"/> In the 1993 election, the first multi-party parliamentary elections since 1965, she was elected MP representing Cankuzo Province, as one of 16 UPRONA MPs.<ref>{{cite web | title=Le 21 Octobre 1993, l’Armée Burundaise Tutsi tue le Président Ndadaye | website=burundi-agnews.org | url=https://burundi-agnews.org/guerre-civile-1993-2003/le-21-octobre-1993-larmee-burundaise-tutsi-tue-le-president-ndadaye/ | date=7 October 2000 | access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref> After the outbreak of the Burundian Civil War in 1993, Ndikumana called on Burundian women to take part in civil society and restore an emphasis on peaceful social values over violence.<ref>{{cite web | author1=Zdenek Cervenka | author2=Colin Legum | title=Le Dialogue National Peut-il Briser la Puissance de la Terreur au Burundi? | website=Institut Scandinave des Etudes Africaines d'Uppsala | date=November 1994 | url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:273400/FULLTEXT01.pdf | access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref> In 1996 Ndikumana was against United Nations proposals to send a standby peacekeeping force to neighboring Zaire: {{blockquote|Such a force, which will contribute to the divisions between Burundians, should not be tried. We don’t know what this force will do, [but] in Central Africa and Somalia, we have never seen what this [U.N.] force could achieve.<ref>{{cite news | author=Farhan Haq | title=Burundi: U.N. Moves Ahead While Politicians Bicker | date=30 January 1996 | url=http://www.ipsnews.net/1996/01/burundi-un-moves-ahead-while-politicians-bicker/ | access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref>}}
Ndikumana served as Treasurer of the AMANI Forum.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Role of Parliaments in the National Reconciliation Process in Africa | date=2005 | url=https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/the-role-of-parliaments-in-the-national-reconciliation-process-in-africa.pdf | access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref>
In August 2010 Ndikumana was one of three UPRONA MPs appointed to be ministers in President Pierre Nkurunziza's power-sharing government, when she was appointed Minister of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism.<ref>{{cite web | author=Jamila El Abdellaoui | title=Burundi: Overview of the 2010 elections and observations on the way forward | website=Institute for Security Studies | date=14 October 2010 | url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/140542/14Oct2010BurundiVer2.pdf | page=8 | access-date=26 February 2021 }}</ref> She saw it as a priority to address Burundi's trade deficit by increasing imports.<ref>{{cite web | title=Stepping up Trade and Adding Value | website=The European Times | date= | url=https://the-european-times.com/minister-victoire-ndikumana/ | access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref> In February 2014 Nkurunziza and the other two UPRONA ministers resigned their ministerial positions. They objected to Nkurunziza's sacking of his UPRONA vice-president, Bernard Busokoza,<ref>{{cite news | author=Patrick Nduwimana | title=Three ministers quit Burundi government in constitutional row | newspaper=Reuters | date=6 February 2014 | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/news/three-ministers-quit-burundi-government-constitutional-row-064708321.html | access-date=26 February 2021 }}</ref> and to efforts by the ruling CNDD-FDD party to replace Charles Nditjie, UPRONA party chairman, with someone more sympathetic to CNDD-FDD before the 2015 elections.<ref>{{cite news | title=Political crisis in Burundi as Tutsi ministers quit | newspaper=Times Live | date=5 February 2014 | url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2014-02-05-political-crisis-in-burundi-as-tutsi-ministers-quit/}}</ref>
In 2012 Ndikumana received an International Women's Day Women Achiever Award from the Institute of South Asian Women (ISAW).<ref>{{cite web | title=IWD Awards | url=http://isaw.co.in/awards.html | access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref>
==Works== * (with Christophe Sebudandi) [https://www.international-alert.org/sites/default/files/publications/201209ParticipationFemmesBurundi-FR.pdf A la conquête de la parole: La participation des femmes dans la transition démocratique au Burundi]. International Alert, July 2012.
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