MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: TECHNICAL MEETING WITH GOVERNOR JEAN-JACQUES PURUSI SADIKI AND THE CEO OF AZANIA GROUP ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM FOR DIGITALIZATION OF BORDER PROCEDURES IN THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH KIVU
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Fight against dumping and the sinking of public revenues in the province of South Kivu which loses 33 million US dollars each month, soon a system of digitalization of border procedures will be put in place to allow taxes to be collected across borders in this province, in accordance with the agreements signed by the Democratic Republic with sub-regional organizations including the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa-COMESA, the East African Community-EAC and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region-ICGLR; objective, to enable the Provincial Government to face security and development challenges with the construction of infrastructure.
From now on, the Democratic Republic of Congo will benefit from Tanzanian expertise in the digitalization of border procedures, through the AZANIA GROUP, to combat the leakage of public revenues and fraud, with South Kivu as a pilot province.
The Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya discussed this Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in Kinshasa with the Governor of South Kivu, Jean-Jacques Purusi Sadiki and the CEO of Azania Group, Mohamed Eidha Awadh, on the menu, the acceleration of the implementation of this digitalization system and the consolidation of the implementation of the Simplified Commercial Regime-RECOS launched on October 30 2024 by the DRC and Burundi to Kavimvira-Gatumba, a regime which grants several facilities to small cross-border traders.
The Governor of South Kivu welcomes this support from the Government through the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
For the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, this system will make it possible to transform physical processes into digital processes in the maximization of public revenues and a rigorous evaluation must take place in 45 days in order to consider the progressive deployment of this gigital system throughout the national territory, he concluded.
