The meeting between the President of the DRC and the American billionaire, Bill Gates, interested the newspapers published this Wednesday in Kinshasa.
Approaching the subject, The Daily indicated that on Tuesday in New York, the Head of State Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo granted an audience to the American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates
at the latter’s request. The assessment of the health situation in the DRC was the main subject of this meeting.
Also addressing the topic, Prosperity said that during this meeting Bill Gates presented to President Tshisekedi the significant advances in polio vaccination in the DRC. According to him, wrote lDaily, from 500 cases in 2022, the number of sick children fell to 200 in 2023, then only 22 in 2024.
In the same vein, Africanews specifies that, present at this hearing, the DR Congolese Minister of Public Health, Roger Kamba, reassured on the willingness of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to engage in the routine vaccination of DR Congolese children against measles, chickenpox and Mpox. This, before adding that at the end of this hearing, the
American philanthropist has expressed the wish to extend his support to the agricultural sector in the DR Congo and to provide DR Congolese students with connected tablets thanks to
at Starlink.
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Rémi Maréchaux at Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde
The newspapers published this Wednesday also reported on the meeting between the President of the Senate and the new French ambassador to the DRC.
According to The Journal The President of the Upper House of Parliament, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde received, in his office, at the People’s Palace, the new Ambassador of the French Republic in the DRC, Rémi Maréchaux. This
The meeting, which took place a few days after the French diplomat presented his credentials to the President of the Republic Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, allowed the Senate speaker to review the main priorities of his institution, explains the tabloid.
The Laureate revealed that speaking to the press at the end of this audience, the French Ambassador reaffirmed his country’s willingness to strengthen the partnership that already exists between France and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Emongo Gerome
2024-09-25 10:36:53
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