The project to build a road linking the two capitals, the closest in the world, is the headlines lately, leading to a debate between pro and alter on social networks. Congolese are divided on the feasibility of this project which most describe as untimely.
For some sophisticated analysts, this project is economically useless for the Democratic Republic of Congo, because the big profit would be drawn on the other side of the river. A significant flow of goods to the DRC would escape the seaports of Kongo Central. Because the importers will have more profit by unloading their goods by Point Noire - which offers a customs tariff advantageous - for routing them in Kinshasa, via this road.
The DRC does not have, until now, a deep water port to allow the docking of cargo ships, will see all its cargo unloaded at Pointe Noire, before reaching easily and without much difficulty the Congolese capital by said road. The current scheme Europe or Asia-Pointe-Kongo Central via Pointe Noire will now belong to the past.
While the President of the Republic, Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, has launched the field of mobilization of funds, internally and internationally, to bail out the coffers of the State and operate at an exponential speed of modernization process of the DRC, this project passes, according to many observers, as a political action, better cosmetic only contributing to the embellishment of the Congo River, between the two cities.
This is not at all a priority for the DRC because, at this stage, they continue, the country must aim at profitable infrastructure in place of purely aesthetic architectural works.
(CKS/Yes)