The Minister of Defence and Veterans () is a minister of the DR Congo government responsible for implementation of government defence policy and supervises the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The President, Félix Tshisekedi is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Defence ministers, formally Ministers of Defence, and Veterans (Ancien Combattants), since the post-2002 transition began have been:
Laurent-Desire Kabila was serving as his own minister of defence in October 1997, and Joseph Kabila was doing the same while President in August 2002.
Previous defence ministers before 2003 included:
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