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Kabila calls for food self-sufficiency

    NAIROBI

    Kabila has announced the creation of a “National Reconstruction Brigade” aimed achieving food self-sufficiency and optimising mineral exploitation. In his first address to the new cabinet, reported by DRC television, he said the only food imports would now be items the DRC could not produce itself. Abandoned farms and plantations would be requisitioned by the state. Kabila also called for establishing a “war economy” where goods - such as tyres, tractors, uniforms - would be manufactured locally.

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