Cooperation: the USA disburses 1 billion USD in favor of the DRC
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The United States has just disbursed 1 billion US dollars in favor of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the relaunch of the new cycle of cooperation between the two countries.
This good news was announced by the US Ambassador to the post in the DRC, Stéphanie Miley to the President of the National Assembly, Christophe Mboso during a meeting held on Wednesday September 14, 2022.
This fund will finance several projects in the public domain, among others, education, health, and the promotion of governance, according to Uncle Sam's country charge in the DRC.
“We discussed with the President of the National Assembly on a certain number of subjects related to the next cycle of cooperation program between our two countries with the amount of 1 billion dollars voted by the USA to help the Congolese people” , said the American diplomat.
It was also a question for the two personalities to make an assessment around certain laws which are currently being debated at the level of the upper and lower houses of the Congolese parliament, but also of the security situation in the east of the country.
It should be noted that, apart from the financing of the new development program of the DRC, Washington also finances the electoral process in progress in the DRC, with an additional disbursement, a few days ago, of 13 million dollars in favor of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Despite the downward revision in the sub-Saharan economic zone: Congolese economic growth forecasts remain positive (World Bank)
In its semi-annual report published this Wednesday, September 14, the World Bank informs that the DRC's economic growth forecasts for the year 2022 remain positive, i.e. 6%, which represents a difference of 1.2% more compared to its forecast in early January of this year.
On the other hand, the situation is not good in the economic zone of Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the economists of this institution, the sub-Saharan zone should expect a drop in growth forecast for the end of this year, i.e. 4.5%, reflecting a drop of 0.4% compared to forecasts at the beginning of January.
Among the factors that weigh down the outlook for economic growth this year, World Bank economists note the persistence of the Ukrainian crisis, which is affecting the prices of energy resources, in particular oil, gas (Russia being one of the most large producers) which, by domino effect, is fueling inflation in both developed and emerging economies.
Indeed, if the Congolese economy is showing resilience in the face of the crisis that is falling on a global scale, certain economists point out, it is in particular because of the good performance of the prices of the key raw materials exported by the country, including cobalt and copper.
* Now if they could only throw Lithium and Tin into that Economic Mix as well atm
Not to mention the fact what the US would want in return for their 1 billion US dollars
The Mind Boggles
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