A team of local entrepreneurs and company executives will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province later this week to explore investment opportunities and to negotiate softer tax regimes in the area.
Dave Donelson!!! Obviously you are not an African. You are NON-African .... a negative entity. Your interests in are ONLY exploitative and colonial. How do you mean "pariah state"? The days when Europeans, (I prefer that TERM instead of 'White'), maintain an abusive relationship with Afrika is coming to an end. Zimbabwe is leading the way. Painful!! yes it is but the results are freedom for future generations. Please stop interfering and meddling...be you religion or political missionaries. From your name, it looks like you are Scandanavian, the home of the NOBLE prize and awards ... money made from the production of EXPLOSIVES. THINK!!
Is the DRC so desperate for foreign investment it must reach out to a pariah state such as Zimbabwe? By doing so, the DRC helps prop up the Mugabe regime, which is bad enough, but sends a message to the rest of the world that it cares little for democracy and freedom. Given the state of the economy in Zimbabwe, "investments" can only mean illegally-gained foreign currency that's being laundered by ZANU-PF members. The DRC is trading short-term profit for long-term respect. Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds, a novel of the Congo.