diplomacy&development

Cardinal  Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the catholic archbishop of Kinshasa and the French Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, François Pujolas, signed on Wednesday April 29, 2020, in the presence of the director of Caritas Development Kinshasa, an agreement allowing the realization of an original project of support for agricultural production in Kinshasa and its region. This project, close to the realities on the ground, responds very concretely, and to one of the major challenges posed by the Covid-19 epidemic and its economic and social consequences. Indeed, already facing an acute humanitarian crisis with 15.6 million people estimated in the  need of assistance, the Congolese population must now face the Covid-19 pandemic. This crisis is not only health, but also socio-economic, because traffic restrictions  or physical distancing measures disrupt the normal activity of the country.  In Kinshasa, epicenter of the epidemic in the...

Faced with COVID-19, a brutal global public health crisis, all countries are taking control measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic. China has made remarkable progress so far with its most comprehensive, rigorous and in-depth measures, but the country still faces great risks from imported cases and a possible rebound in local cases. In particular, as the pandemic spreads around the world, imported cases are putting increasing pressure. China and Africa are good friends, partners and brothers. Sino-African friendship has been forged on the basis of joint efforts in the search for national independence, national liberation, economic development and the improvement of the well-being of the people in recent decades.  This proven friendship is a treasure for the Chinese and the Africans. After the Ebola epidemic broke out in three West African countries in 2014, the Chinese government very quickly provided assistance and fought alongside African countries and people...

T he Assistant Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. CHEN Xiaodong met collectively with part of the Ambassadors of African countries in China and exchanged with them on the situation of African nationals living in Guangdong province after the implementation of measures to prevent and control the epidemic by the provincial authorities in Guangdong. The meeting recorded the participation of some twenty African countries by the presence of their Ambassadors or their representatives.   According to CHEN Xiaodong, the Chinese people have always considered the African peoples as partners and brothers who have shared luck and unhappiness in solidarity. Sino-African friendship is unwavering because it is deeply rooted in China and Africa. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, China and Africa have once again shown solidarity in overcoming the difficulties together. Today, the pandemic is developing in Africa. China shares the same concerns of African co...

The Chinese representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo within the framework of Chinese-Congolese cooperation, has proceded Friday, April 10, with the official handover of the Lubumbashi Reference Hospital to the Congolese government.  It was after a signing ceremony of the certificate of receipt and delivery of keys held in the office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the ITP that the Chinese Ambassador to the DRC, Zhu Jing presented officially the Lubumbashi Hospital Center in the hands of the Congolese authorities.  In this period of global health crisis due to the coronavirus, this center represents a powerful weapon for the response, already underway in the country, against this pandemic.  "We hope that the hospital can quickly be put into service and play an important role in the response to covid-19," said the Chinese embassy in a tweet.  The keys were handed over to the Congolese Minister for Cooperation, Guillaume Manjolo in the ...

In the difficult times experienced by the Congolese people, solidarity must prevail; it contributes to the resilience of society. Based on this mindset, the French Embassy in DR. Congo participates in this collective effort and mobilizes, with support from the Crisis and Support Center of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the French Development Agency, making quickly available an emergency aid of 5 million euros.  It will also accelerate and strengthen its support programs for the health system and the economic fabric. "France is mobilizing in emergency, like other DRC partners, European and  international, and despite the constraints linked to the epidemic in Europe " said the Ambassador  of France in Democratic Republic of Congo, François Pujolas.  "We want to be with the Congolese, to help urgently to cope to the epidemic, by redirecting certain spending on cooperation, but also by anticipating the need to preserve the economic and ...