| Kasongo Musenga | |
| Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
| Honorific-Suffix: | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
| Office: | Congolese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Egypt |
| President: | Felix Tshisekedi |
| Term Start: | December 19, 2022 |
| Birth Date: | May 7, 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Children: | 4 |
Born in Kinshasa on May 7, 1974, Jean Baptiste Kasongo Musenga is a Congolese diplomat who is serving as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Congo to Egypt as of 2022. He presented his credentials to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on April 4, 2023.[1] He joined the diplomatic service in 2000 and is a career member of the Senior Foreign Services, class of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador. Prior to his transfer in Egypt, he served as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Congolese Embassy in New Delhi, India (from February to December 2022)
Musenga's parents are committed Catholics although they are both from different ethnic groups: Professeur Kasongo Munganga (his father) is a Luba from Katanda Territory while his multilingual mother, Antoinette Mbwaki, is from Kisantu in Kongo Central. He married Nicole Ntumba in 2000, making him the father of four.
Musenga's diplomatic career began in May 2000 when he was posted to the embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in India where he served until his appointment as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Arab Republic of Egypt in 2022.
Musenga's first posting was in 2000, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) deployed him as a temp at AMBARDC New Delhi, India. Two years later, he was hired in the Public Service and assigned to Foreign Affairs Ministry (Order Nº CAB.MIN/FP/MJ/kit/181/2002 of May 8, 2002 On Admission Sub-status and Appointment of Public Service Career Agents of the State of Different Ministries), hence the starting point of his diplomatic career.
He was transferred to AMBARDC New Delhi at the rank of 2nd Secretary of Embassy (aka ATB2), on January 29, 2003 (Transfer Order Nº 131.1/165/2003 of January 29, 2003 to exercise the functions of 2nd Embassy Secretary). He joined the Corps of Diplomats of the Republic at the rank of 1st Secretary of Embassy (aka ATB1) on May 10, 2003 (Order Nº 130/006 of May 10, 2003 of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, page 3, relating to integration into the diplomatic corps of the Republic)
On May 5, 2022, Kasongo get promoted Minister Counselor (by Order Nº 038/CAB.VPMIN/FP-MA-ISP/JPL/2022 of on the interim appointment of career staff to public command posts State services of the various Ministries) thus became a career member of the Senior Foreign Services.
On December 19, 2022, President Félix Tshisekedi appointed Kasongo Musenga as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Arab Republic of Egypt (Ordinance Nº 22/247 of December 19, 202.) He was officially sworn in as Ambassador to Egypt on December 29, 2022. He arrived in Cairo on January 26, 2023 and presented his credentials to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on February 23, 2023.[1]
Alerted by the cry of distress of Congolese players stranded in Sudan following the war, the Minister of Sports and Leisure, Mr. Kabulo informed President Félix Tshisekedi. The latter entrusted this emergency mission to his extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador in Egypt, Kasongo Musenga who brought back all the players safe and sound. It is Fabrice Ngoma, Steven Ebwela, Glody Lilepo and trainer Eugène Bulayima who are finally in Kinshasa, accompanied by the ambassador Jean Baptiste Kasongo Musenga. They were welcomed at N'djili Airport, in the early afternoon of Monday, May 15, 2023, by the Minister of Sports and Leisure François Kabulo Mwana Kabulo.[7]
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