A nearby region of Brazzaville, the pool plunged back into violence between 2016 and 2017 due to competition for the results of the presidential election. Former rebel leader Frédéric Bintsamou, alias Pasteur Ntumi, said at the weekend that the March 21 presidential election would not be an opportunity to awaken old demons. The people of Pool as a whole have the same prayer, called Mindouli, where the young people only need work.
Instead of Mindouli station with its buildings still bearing the scars of war, night is approaching. Some travelers wait almost hopelessly for a train that takes them to the surrounding towns or to Brazzaville. Most of them have only one topic in their conversation: the March 21 presidential election. They refuse to let it be a moment of confrontation.
“This is what happened in the pool in 2016, was really catastrophic. I remember it very well because I was there, specifically in Kibouendé. The man from the pool will no longer pack his luggage and flee. I do not know where. He now only calls for peace, ”a railway worker exclaims on condition of anonymity.
To the future president, whom they are called to elect, they ask to create jobs for young people who are sometimes unemployed with important diplomas: “The newly elected president must ensure that the Pool youth can have at least one victory. -Bread “That she can have businesses or businesses.” “For the president who wants to pass, we want, firstly, peace and, secondly, work,” ask young residents of Mindouli in return.
Several dozen of them have become unemployed since the end of 2019. The large local cement factory with the Indian and Togolese capital that employed them is completely silent, i.a. due to a poor study of the market., according to a local authority.
