Nations Development Programme (representing it in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and Senegal), and the office of the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region in Nairobi, where she served as a political advisor and programme coordinator. She returned to Burundi in 2008 and became an independent economic consultant. In that capacity she advocated for the right of women to inherit land and property and for the use of democracy. In 2016 the Carter Center selected Kinigi to lead its international election observer mission in Zambia for that year's general elections. See also List of the first women holders of political offices in Africa Notes References Works cited |- 1953 births 20th-century women politicians Women government ministers of Burundi Burundian women activists Female heads of state Living people Prime Ministers of Burundi Presidents of Burundi Tutsi people Union for National Progress politicians Women prime ministers University of Burundi alumni Burundian economists