Met with Democratic Republic of the Congo President @Presidence_RDC Tshisekedi to discuss the Washington Accords and our expanded security partnership. With the DRC, we are transforming peace into mutual prosperity.
À l'occasion d'une séance de travail tenue à Washington D.C. ce mercredi 4 février, le Président de la République, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, a échangé avec le secrétaire d’État américain @SecRubio@marcorubio Marco Rubio.
Ils ont essentiellement discuté de l'état d'avancement des engagements souscrits dans le cadre de l'accord de paix de Washington, du partenariat stratégique entre la RDC et les États-Unisd'Amérique ainsi que de l'engagement mutuel à favoriser la paix, la stabilité et le développement économique de la RDC en sauvegardant sa souveraineté et son intégrité territoriale.
#DRC: While I know this may come as a surprise to Congolese, one of the key bright spots in Congo's economy has been the manufacturing sector - which is now producing around the same value as Kenya's.
Broadly speaking, the solid reforms put in place by former @financesrdc Kazadi and the ongoing ones by @LikundeR have lifted the sector from production that hovered around $7B when Kabila left office to $12-13b today - a whopping 33-35% increase and rivaling Kenya's.
Much of this is processing in the mining sector. But there is also considerable expansion in areas where our investment firm and other has put in quite alot of $$- specifically, the food processing, wood, and building materials (cement, floor panels, rebar, etc) sectors. And the good thing about all these sector is they create lots and lots of good paying, stable jobs and reduce Congo's overall import bill (encouraging a stronger CDF).
I highly encourage Congolese - in Congo and in the diaspora - to not only invest in real estate and farming but also in manufacturing due to @financesrdc ongoing reforms and particularly in your 2nd tier cities (Gemena, Kisangani, Kananga, Kolwezi, Isiro, Kalemie, Kikwit, Bumba, Bunia, etc) that are seeing road and energy investment from @SICOMINES funds.
Now is the time.
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