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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: CLOSING OF THE FRENCH WEEK IN KINSHASA: MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA REASSURED FRENCH BUSINESS HEADS OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUSINESS CLIMATE IN THE DRC

Guest of honor at the gala dinner offered this Thursday, April 23, 2026 as part of the closing of the French week in Kinshasa, the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, on behalf of the Congolese Government reassured the heads of around thirty French companies who traveled to Kinshasa, of the improvement of the business climate with deep structural reforms undertaken by the Government including the simplification of administrative procedures for reduce office barriers, thus making it easier to create businesses and obtain licenses, but also to make taxation more transparent, predictable and attractive.

Do not see the DRC as a simple market, but rather as a production partner, because it has immense potential with strategic resources including 80 million hectares of arable land and dynamic youth, from where today's pioneers will be tomorrow's leaders, added the Minister of Foreign Trade, in the presence of the Ambassador of France in the DRC, Rémi Marechaux and the Ambassador of the DRC in France, Émile Ngoy Kasongo.