Red tape strangles trade in DR Congo

For most businesses across the world, red tape is a headache they could do without, but spare a thought for companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The country is now implementing a nine-year-old law that has redrawn internal borders and more than doubled the number of provinces.
The mineral-rich province of Katanga in the south of the country has now been divided into four separate provinces, meaning that companies are having to negotiate around the bureaucracy of each.