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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Africa investor (Ai) are joining forces to launch a digitally empowered eTrade initiative to enable the digitisation of five million micro-, s... Read more
“The vaccines are here!”—the cry heard and welcomed the world over—has boosted hopes of a global economic recovery in 2021. Yet until vaccines are widely available, the market rally and the... Read more
The Corona virus has re-written the rules of life as we know it, both in our personal spaces and in business. It has also given us a chance to re-set at a scale never before imaginable at th... Read more
President: Félix Tshisekedi
Prime Minister: Sylvestre Ilunga
Capital city: Kinshasa
Languages: French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Population, persons: 84,068,091 (2018)
Area, sq km: 2,267,050
GDP per capita, US$: 562 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 47.2 (2018)
GINI index: 42.1 (2012)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 183
