RENEWAL OF JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA AT THE HEAD OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE: THE MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET RESERVED HIM THIS THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2025, A SURPRISE WELCOME WITH THE DELIVERY OF GIFTS, A WAY OF ENCOURAGING HIM TO FURTHER CONSOLIDATE THE SAFEGUARDING OF LOCAL INDUSTRY, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SIMPLIFIED TRADE REGIME-RECOS AND THE ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY OF THE DRC.
Reappointed as head of the Ministry of Foreign Trade within the Suminwa II Government, Minister Julien Paluku Kahongya immediately returned to the country after a major South American tour, and this, as part of the warming of south-south economic and commercial cooperation, benefited this Thursday, August 14, 2025 from a surprise welcome from the members of his working cabinet who presented their thanks to the President of the Republic, Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo and to the Prime Minister, Judith Suminwa Tuluka for the trust placed in her person.
For Beneseth MsafiriKyakakala, Director of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Trade, this renewal is part of the aim of further consolidating the achievements including the protection of local industry against duping, the implementation of the Simplified Commercial Regime-RECOS which grants several facilities to small cross-border traders in accordance with the interministerial order Foreign Trade-Finance which sets the amount of 50 US dollars per trader per day, the construction of infrastructure to facilitate cross-border trade through the Trade Facilitation and Integration Project in the Great Lakes Region-PFCIGL financed by the World Bank including one-stop posts, cross-border markets and ports, but also the economic and commercial diplomacy of the DRC and the modernization of the Coongo-Kinshasa International Fair-
FICKIN within 36 months.
Approved by his colleagues, the Minister of Foreign Trade received some gifts from them, including goats, a way of encouraging him to consolidate with his pragmatism the reforms he is carrying out in his sector
Speaking, the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, beneficiary of 5 presidential orders, in an undistorted manner gave thanks to God and presented for the umpteenth time his sincere thanks to the President of the Republic, Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo and to the Prime Minister, Judith Suminwa Tuluka for the trust placed in him.
On this occasion, he called on the members of his cabinet and the agents and executives of the services under supervision to innovate further to make Foreign Trade the real lever of economic growth of the Democratic Republic of Congo by emphasizing the consolidation of the implementation of the National Strategy for the Promotion of Exports and Market Diversification - SPED and the Simplified Commercial Regime - RECOS but also on the promotion of the country brand throughout the world.
