Economie
Haut-Katanga/Économie : la semoule de maïs se négocie à 80.000 FC à Kasumbalesa
Les habitants de la ville de Kasumbalesa en particulier et de la province du haut Katanga en général assistent à une hausse vertigineuse du prix de la farine de maïs, une denrée de première nécessité dans le panier de la ménagère.
Dépendante comme toujours de la République sœur de la Zambie, la ville frontalière de Kasumbalesa fait face à pénurie de ce produit dans les différents marchés de la Zambie. Selon les commerçants congolais qui se sont livrés à Congoprofond.net sous l’anonymat, « la crise de la semoule de maïs est la conséquence de la rareté de cette céréale en Zambie, causée par la fermeture des certains de ses dépôts ».
Et d’ajouter : « nous souffrons pour avoir la farine en Zambie. Nous sommes en plus, victime d’une tracasserie sans merci de la part de la police congolaise. En Zambie, la semoule est revue à la hausse. Nous la négocions à 70.000Fc le sac et nous venons le revendre à 75000Fc voir 80.000Fc selon la situation du marché ».
Certaines sources indiquent qu’il y a des commerçants qui ont acheté la même farine qui provient de Lubumbashi en Zambie. Ces manœuvres contribuent à la hausse de prix et pourtant Lushi et Kasumbalesa font partie intégrante de la province du Haut-Katanga. Quel contraste !
Il est important de préciser qu’au moment où la population de la ville de Kasumbalesa vit cette misère due à la pénurie de la semoule de maïs, le gouvernement provincial du Haut-Katanga solde à 20.000FC, le sac de la farine Made in Haut-Katanga aux habitants de la ville de Lubumbashi. Deux poids, deux mesures pour un seul peuple qu’on se le dise.
JOSEPH MALABA/CONGOPROFOND.NET
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Two financing agreements for USD 70 Million were signed with Burkina Faso and Uganda at the side-lines of the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) held in Sharm ElSheikh, Egypt 22-26 May 2023.
Together with these, His Excellency Dr. Sidi Ould Tah, Director General of BADEA signed a Framework Agreement for supporting the capital increase of the West African Development Bank (BOAD) through their respective sovereign shareholders, thus leveraging BADEA’s selective footprint in Africa, a strategy commensurate with the bank’s focus on innovative social impact and capital optimization.
In Egypt, the first sovereign financing agreement for USD 50 Million was signed with Burkina Faso for
funding towards the country’s capital injection into BOAD.
The second agreement for USD 20 Million was signed with the Republic of Uganda to finance the construction and equipment of the Uganda Heart Institute (UH). This project is a joint initiative with other partners from the Arab Coordination Group (ACG)–The Saudi Fund and OPEC Fund. Altogether, UHI will receive USD 70 million which will go a long way in providing the Uganda Heart Institute all the additional
capacity in space and equipment that they need to further reduce on referrals of Ugandan cardiovascular patients abroad. H.E. Matia Kasaija, Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development signed on behalf of Uganda.
Earlier in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the annual meetings of the Islamic Deveopment Bank (IsDB) from 10-14 May 2023, the BADEA Director General aso signed three financing agreements respectively with the Republic of the Niger, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, and the Repubic of the Gambia with a total amount of USD 116 million.
The first two sovereign financings will support the capital increase of the West African Development Bank (BOAD) for the account of Niger and Côte d’Ivoire (USD 100 Million) and the third one will provide financing for the second phase of the University of Gambia expansion (USD 16 Million).
It should be noted that BADEA already contributed to financing the first phase of building the University of Gambia jointly with the institutions of the Arab Coordination Group (ACG) for a total cost of USD 52 million.
At both events, His Excellency the Director General and his team held several meetings with the participating delegations of beneficiary African countries, international development organizations and private sector institutions and stakeholders to discuss how BADEA could further catalyse more targeted development growth in the region through the use of Arab sources of capital.
Many stakeholders took this opportunity to reaffirm their solidarity with BADEA and to congratulate the
bank for its ability to maintain full business continuity despite the chalenges in its host country.
“I would like to strongly commend BADEA for their demonstrably first-class business continuity and institutional resilience. Nobody would have expected to sign a financing agreement today withan organisation whose Headquarters country just erupted into war weeks ago. We are therefore pleased and look forward to continued implementation of the expansion of the University of the Gambia”, said H. E.
Seedy Keita, Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs of the Gambia.
H.E. Dr. Sidi Ould Tah, BADEA’s Director General said “Our track record of 48 years operating in Africa has taught us that event risk is a way of life. We shall therefore spare no efforts in availing ourselves for the service of the continent, whether through direct financing of projects like the University of Gambia, and the Uganda Heart Institute, or indirectly through supporting our partner institutions such as BOAD with
their capital increase –our aspiration remains inclusive and sustainable development of Africa in
accordance with the African Union’s agenda 2063”.
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