Reduction of Poverty

September 1, 2007

In the framework of scientific days of the UPC held from 19-20 January, 2007, by the School of Business Administration and Economic Sciences on the theme Reduction of poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Professor N’Kwim Bibi-Bikan held a conference entitled “Responses of the Church to the reduction of poverty and morality in Africa.” In April 2007, Professeur Ekofo Bonyeku went to the United States of America where he held a conference entitled “Church Contribution to the Peace Process in Democratic Republic of Congo” at the University of Notre Dame. From 4 to 9 February 2007, Professeur Masamba Makela, Dean of the School of Law, made a research trip to Gaberone/Botswana.

22 to 29 May 2007, he was in Belgium and France on a mission initiated by the Government of the DRC (Ministry of Finance) about the process of settling the public foreign debt. From 19 to 29 May 2007, Professeur Andende Apindia, Academic Secretary of the School of Law, participated in the USA in a session of Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition at Washington College of Law, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Before this trip Prof. Andende made a research trip to Italy from 20-27 February, 2007