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TECHNICAL MEETING WITH THE WORLD BANK DELEGATION ON ACCELERATION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TRADE FACILITATION AND INTEGRATION PROJECT IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION- PFCGIL

Acceleration of the implementation of the Trade Facilitation and Integration Project in the Great Lakes Region-PFCIGL, concrete and realistic strategies were put in place this Tuesday, December 9, 2025 in Kinshasa by the Congolese Government through its Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya and the World Bank team headed by Patrice Savadogo, Principal Forestry Specialist, representing the Country Director of this Breton Wood institution.

Despite the security situation prevailing in the eastern part of the country, these two parties agreed to accelerate construction work on various infrastructures to facilitate trade including ports, cross-border markets and roads in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, within the framework of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa-COMESA program.
The launch of the Simplified Commercial Regime - RECOS between the DRC and Burundi on October 30, a special regime which grants several facilities to small cross-border traders and the project to grant subsidies to small cross-border traders was welcomed by Patrice Savadogo.

On this occasion, Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, new manager of the PFCGIL Project, replacing Magueye Dia, who arrived at the end of her mandate, was officially presented to the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya who, on behalf of the Congolese Government, welcomed the support of the World Bank in the construction and modernization of infrastructure to facilitate trade in the DRC which has already ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement of the World Trade Organization-WTO.