Pierre Lumbi Okongo

Reports of China’s plans emerged after Pierre Lumbi Congo’s Minister for Infrastructure signed a protocol on 17 September with Li Changjin head of the China Railway Engineering Corporation who committed his firm along with China’s Eximbank and Sinohydro to invest $3 bn...

Many diplomats see the announcement by the Minister for Infrastructure Pierre Lumbi Okongo as both a political and a commercial initiative: a reminder to the EU that its financing of last year’s elections does not give it droit de seigneur over Congo’s mineral fields...

Within days of Infrastructure Minister Pierre Lumbi Okongo's mid-September announcement that China was providing more than $8 billion to finance new mining operations and infrastructure developments the diplomatic phones started ringing...

Pierre Lumbi Okongo of the Mouvement Social pour le Renouveau seen as a junior version of the PPRD has the much-envied portfolio of Infrastructure Public Works and Reconstruction...

In mid-June a number of Mobutu-era figures were arrested including former civil servant Fundu Kota long-time oppositionist Cléoface Kamitatu former central bank governor Patrice Djamboleka and former minister Pierre Lumbi...