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THE TUNISIA-DRC BUSINESS FORUM LAUNCHED THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025 IN KINSHASA BY MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA

By giving this Thursday, November 20, 2025 in Kinshasa, the go of the Tunisia-Democratic Republic of Congo Business Forum in which 17 CEOs of large Tunisian companies and Congolese economic operators take part,
The Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, invited Tunisian investors to seize the opportunities offered by the DRC in several sectors and to come and do business there by sealing win-win strategic partnerships with Congolese employers to thus increase the volume of trade, but also investments between these two countries.

Tunisian economic operators are already ready to come and invest in the DRC, which will now benefit from Tunisian expertise in several areas including technology, innovation and agroindustry, said the Ambassador of Tunisia to the DRC, Mahrez Ferchichi.

The DRC is among the top 5 privileged trading partners of Tunisia in terms of exports, indicated for its part
Thierry Ngoy, Managing Director at the Congo-FEC Business Federation

Note that this forum is organized by the Tunisian Export Center-CEPEX and the Tunisian Embassy in the DRC in collaboration with the National Agency for the Promotion of Exports-
ANAPEX including its General Director, Mike Tambwe who advocated for the Development of value chains to increase the exposure of products made in DRC to Tunisia

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