HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT ON REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ON THE SIDE OF THE 9TH SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ICGLR SET FOR NOVEMBER 15, 2025 IN KINSHASA INTERVENTION THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025 BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA ON THE IMPACT OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS BETWEEN THE DRC AND UGANDA TO INCREASE THE VOLUME OF COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THESE TWO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES
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Panelist this Friday, November 14, 2025 in Kinshasa at the high-level segment of regional economic integration, on the sidelines of the 9th summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region-ICGLR which is being held this Saturday in the Congolese capital, the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku encouraged the construction of all roads between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, because they will increase the volume of trade between these two neighboring countries to reach 1 billion 500 million US dollars per year within 5 and 10 years, currently estimated at 800 million US dollars per year, thanks to the dynamism of the populations
In front of the delegates of the ICGLR member countries and economic operators, the Minister of Foreign Trade, on behalf of the Congolese Government, welcomed the cultivation of cocoa which is intensifying in the part of the DRC and whose ton cost in 2024 almost 10,000 US dollars while specifying that the same year, the DRC exported around 80,000 tons of cocoa from the Beni-Ituri regions...
In addition to cocoa, Uganda sources products from the Congolese market to supply its industry, and the DRC also sources manufacturing products from the Ugandan market, he added.
We hope that the construction of these roads augurs the development of towns and cities located along the borders between the DRC and Uganda.
