MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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Strengthening the support of the Congolese Government in the promotion of industrial units and the safeguarding of local industry in the province of Haut-Katanga, the Interim Minister of Industry, Entrepreneurship and SME Development, Justin Kalumba Mwana Ngongo and his colleague from Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya arrived this Sunday, July 5, 2026 in Lubumbashi, where they were welcomed by the Minister Provincial of Gender, Family and Children, Coco Kanku, acting in Commerce.
On site, these two members of the Suminwa Government will inaugurate some industrial units and lay the first stone for the construction of factories for the production of underground electrical cables and square tubes, but also, discuss with economic operators on the consolidation of the safeguarding of the industry, and this, within the framework of the fight against unfair competition of which local industrial companies are victims, and on the fight against the duping phenomenon at the Kasumbalesa border post, on the border with Zambia.
Note that the Interim Minister of Industry, Justin Kalumba Mwana Ngongo, Moral Authority of the Reform Party- PR and Julien Paluku Kahongya, Moral Authority of the United Bloc for the Renaissance and Emergence of Congo-BUREC and the Political Regroupment- Alliance Bloc 50 -A-B50 were warmly welcomed at the Luano international airport by thousands of activists and executives of the political parties members of the Sacred Union of the Nation, the political family of the Head of State, Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo.
