Micheline Ombae

Kalama was born in 1984 in Rungu^[1] / Isiro. She was educated there including a degree in finance from Isiro's Saint Kizito Institute.^[2]

She got involved with women's rights in 2021 and in 2025 she took the lead at the Nothing Without Women Movement. She has worked for the World Food Programme.^[2]

In August 2025 she became the Minister for Gender in what was called the Suminwa II government. It was created by decree by President Félix Tshisekedi.^[3] She was supported as the new minister by the Congolese businessperson Gentiny Ngobila [fr] and Jean Bakomito who is the Governor of Haut-Uélé.^[2] She credited the President and the Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka for her selection.^[1]

Nelly Mbangu and Bintou Keita attended when she opened an exhibition in Kinshasa in September 2025. It was created by Do Nsoseme and titled "Cross-perspectives: Congolese women in the spotlight" and it was an international exhibition for peace as there was a similar mirroring exhibition in New York. The exhibition's supporters included Keita's MONUSCO, UN Women and the United Nations Department of Peace Operations.^[4]