In a 2013 interview with Voice of America, Prime Minister Matata Ponyo said: "I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry."
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"Any action to take back the city of Goma by force will without doubt result in enormous human loss," said Matata Ponyo in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday.
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