A team of local entrepreneurs and company executives will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province later this week to explore investment opportunities and to negotiate softer tax regimes in the area.

Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, paid his first visit to Kananga in Kasai Occidental province this week. On 30 June 2008, the anniversary of the DRC's independence, Mr. Doss attended a civil and