Olive Lembe di Sita

Marie- Olive Lembe Kabange, born Marie Olive Lembe di Sita ( born July 29, 1976 in Kailo, Maniema, Zaire ) is the première dame of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Marie- Olive Lembe Kabange was the daughter of Barnabas di Sita and Léonie Kasembe Okomba. After the death of her father, she was raised by her mother, who married again, on the 30 kilometers of Goma in North Kivu situated place Kirotshe. From 1982 to 1987 she attended the École Mushindi. She then continued her education by 1992 in Goma continued at the Institute Maendeleo.

She was the long-time fiancée of President Joseph Kabila. The couple were married on 17 June 2006 by the Archbishop of Kinshasa. The couple has two children, born 2001 daughter Sifa Kabila, who named it after Kabila's mother Sifa Mahanya that had been before her first lady and the son of Laurent Désiré Kabila. While Joseph Kabila is Protestant, Olive Lembe belongs to the Catholic Church. A year after her marriage, she founded to support her husband's work, the ASBL / initiative Plus OLK.

A stir a performance by the president's wife made ​​in October 2010, in which she publicly called for the benefit of the country to visit the churches and to the three-day prayer and fasting, and even publicly prayed, whereupon their example was followed throughout the country.