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New budget minister Andely picks task force to improve IMF relations

The newly appointed Congolese budget minister Roger-Rigobert Andely has named a select group to reopen communication channels with the IMF and negotiate the disbursement of the second tranche of a loan programme that has been blocked for the past year. But the going could be tough for the new team. [...] (707 words)

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Denis Gokana
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Trafigura
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Congo's president Denis Sassou Nguesso in Paris in May, 2021. © Stéphane Lemouton/Pool/Abaca via Reuters

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The new hydrocarbons minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua. © Facebook/Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua

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The new Congolese Minister of Finance Roger-Rigobert Andely. © Congolese Ministry of Finance and Budget

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