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USA-AFRICA COOPERATION: CLOSING OF THE AFRICA ALIVE 2024 FORUM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN BOSTON

Very proud to have elevated the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Africa Alive 2024 Forum at Harvard University, an incubator of great American intelligence based in Boston; the government delegation composed of Julien Paluku Kahongya, Patrick Muyaya Katembwe and Marie-Thérèse Sombo, respectively Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Communication and Media and Minister of Higher and University Education, well sold the opportunities offered by the Democratic Republic of Congo in different areas including trade, agro-business, the battery and electric vehicle industry, infrastructure,
energy and tourism.

This team defended the interests of the DRC at the conference debate on the future of Africa co-hosted by the Honorary President of Ethiopia, Sahle Work Zewde and eminent professors from Harvard University.

This same exercise was present at the business dinner organized by the Director of the American Trade and Development Agency, Enoch T Ebong.
The commercial and economic diplomacy carried out will help the DRC to attract more American investments, explained the Minister of Foreign Trade

With the Harvard Business School African student club, Minister Julien Paluku Kahongya surrounded by the Ambassador of Uganda and the Chargé d'affaires of the Embassy of Madagascar in the United States of America
called on them to contribute the intelligence acquired at Harvard for the benefit of their respective countries.

Ousman Sacko, holder
words of these students welcome this questioning

To take advantage of AGOA, the DRC is in the process of implementing strategies to support entrepreneurs, the Minister of Foreign Trade announced during a meeting with
young Congolese women entrepreneurs benefiting from a scholarship at Harvard to improve the governance of their businesses