The Democratic Republic of Congo signed a memorandum of understanding of more than a billion US dollars this Wednesday, February 12 at the Palais des Nations, with General Electric

The DRC was represented by the ministers of health, Eteni Longondo, and the Minister of hydroelectric and electricity, Eustache Muhanzi Mubembe, The General Electric party was represented by the Chairman of the board, George Njenga the Company. This american company has its headquarters in South Africa.

It is the largest US investment in the DRC worth more than US $ 1 billion, said Peter Pham, the United States of America's special envoy for the Great Lakes, to the press. attended the ceremony, accompanied by the American Ambassador to the DRC, Mike Hammer.

According to Peter Pham, this memorandum of understanding covers several sectors including health, energy, education and other commercial. For Peter Pham, the government and the American people are the most contributors in the DRC in the fields of health, fight against Ebola. And in the field of education, more than a thousand schools in the DRC are supported by American subsidies, he added.

Before the signing of the memorandum of understanding, Peter Pham had talks of more than an hour with President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.

"I have come to bring the support of the United States on its vision for the development of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on the will of the Congolese people for change," he said, adding that he acts of a change represented by the fight against corruption, impunity, the improvement of the business climate, the pacification in the East of the countryand so forth.

It should be stressed that Vital Kamerhe the Director of the cabinet of the Head of State and Alain Atundu Liongo the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SNEL, attended this signing ceremony of this memorandum.

 Cassien Tribunal Aungane, Editor