STRATEGIC MEETING ON THE EVALUATION OF THE TRADE FACILITATION AND INTEGRATION PROJECT IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION-PFCIGL WITH THE WORLD BANK
Evaluation of the Trade Facilitation and Integration Project in the Great Lakes Region-
PFCIGL with the construction of a few border posts and markets including Kavimvira, Kamanyola, idjwi and Bukavu in South Kivu and Goma-Kasindi in North Kivu; but also roads and bridges to facilitate trade in this region.
This point was at the center of a strategic meeting yesterday Wednesday in Kinshasa between the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya surrounded by experts from his office and Magueye Dia, Principal Private Sector Specialist of the World Bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo accompanied by the Coordinator of the PFCIGL.
Some of these infrastructures currently under construction will be inaugurated in the coming days and during the
second quarter of 2025, construction work on some border posts, markets, roads and bridges will be launched with the aim of boosting trade facilitation by thus supporting small traders and their respective associations in the Great Lakes region.
indicated the Senior Private Sector Specialist of the World Bank.
On this occasion, Magueye Dia
announced to the Minister of Commerce that the World Bank will support the Congolese Government in the digitalization of the Single Window for Foreign Trade-SEGUCE to thus dematerialize documents and procedures for exports and imports; but also the modernization of the Office Congolais de Cotrole-OCC which must equip itself with certified ultra-modern laboratories.
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Trade welcomed this support from the World Bank while reassuring his host that the Government will urgently make certain sites and documents which are still missing.
Julien Paluku Kahongya took the opportunity to request support from the World Bank in the construction of the border posts of Kasumbalesa in the province of Haut-Katanga on the border with Zambia, of Lufu in Kongo Central on the border with Angola and of Mahagi in the former Grande Orientale on the border with Uganda in order to combat the large-scale fraud decried in these corners of the Republic, he added.
