Kinshasa continues to turn deaf ear to Taiwan's requests to repay its debt

摘要

Despite a number of informal meetings, the issue of thedebt that Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko's regime ran upwith Taiwan in 1991 continues to haunt FélixTshisekedi's presidency. As reported by AfricaIntelligence (AI, 11/06/20), Joseph Kabila's DRC wasordered by the American justice system in January 2017to repay the $20m granted 30 years earlier by the Exim-Import Bank of the Republic of China, plus penalties fordelays and interest bringing it to a total of $57.3m.