MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF THE DRC IN THE MINISTERIAL SEGMENT OF THE 9TH SESSION OF THE SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MONETARY AFFAIRS, ECONOMIC PLANNING AND INTEGRATION, AND IN THE 5TH SESSION OF THE SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON TRADE, TOURISM, INDUSTRY AND MINERAL RESOURCES IN ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
The Democratic Republic of Congo, through experts from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Central Bank of Congo-BCC, is actively participating in the ministerial segment of the 9th session of the specialized committee on finance, monetary affairs and integration, and the 5th session of the specialized technical committee on trade, tourism, industry and mineral resources, launched this Thursday, July 23, 2026 in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire by the Union African, with the aim of strengthening the economic and industrial sovereignty of the African continent, which involves the local transformation of its natural resources with the development of regional value chains and the strengthening of intra-African trade with the progressive removal of non-tariff and tariff barriers, and this, within the framework of the effective implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area-ZLECAF.
On behalf of the Congolese Government, Jonathan Kasereka Kyakwa, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Trade and Head of the delegation, called on African countries, financial institutions including the African Development Bank-AfDB and Afrexim Bank, but also the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa's Development-AUDA-NEPAD to leave the stage of theories for the valorization of the continent's natural resources including minerals strategic, which play a major role in the energy transition; while advocating for the construction and modernization of infrastructure to facilitate intra-African trade
Giving the go-forward to this work, on behalf of the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire, the Ivorian Minister of Economy, Finance and Budget, Amada Coulibaly, for his part, invited African leaders and technical and financial partners to step on the accelerator to win the challenge of effective industrialization of the continent and intra-African trade, in accordance with the 2063 agenda of the African Union
Note that this ministerial segment which closes this Friday in the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire, was preceded by the work of experts.
