Doudou Fwamba: Government Intensifies Public and Provincial Investments to Transform the Economy

On July 14, 2026, DRC Finance Minister Doudou Fwamba Likunde Li-Botayi reaffirmed the government's commitment to make public investment the engine of growth, with unprecedented financial transfers to provinces. Before parliament and the IMF, he outlined an ambitious budget strategy turning the country into a large construction site and overhauling taxation to attract private capital and create jobs. Fwamba stressed breaking with punitive taxation, focusing on local business competitiveness and household consumption.