You could hear the champagne pop and see lots of confetti flying around East Africa last year after the Democratic Republic of the Congo became the seventh member of the East African Community.
With a population of nearly 100 million, Africa’s second-largest nation and one of the world’s mineral-rich countries had many salivating at the prospect of riches to be made in the DRC market. Alas, we are still waiting for the Congo-fuelled East African blossom to come.
