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Spotlight | DRC, Zambia
Moïse Katumbi's brother-in-law to build Kasomeno-Mwenda road

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Hungarian entrepreneur René Hutton-Mills is leading the project to build a cross-border road between the DRC and Zambia which should facilitate the export of Congolese ore to Dar es Salaam. [...]

Published on 02.12.2019 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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