Congo Brazzaville

In Congo-Brazzaville, at least 100,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine offered by China risk being unused next July, according to the government. In question, the population, reluctant to be vaccinated. as reported from Brazzaville, Loïcia MartialIn the center of Brazzaville, Ghislaine Mawata, a mother in her forties, walks…

The very last government set up in Congo-Brazzaville has a ministry responsible for promoting public-private partnerships, led by the son of the head of state who during his first meeting with private actors promised to protect his investments and work to improve the business environment. But entrepreneurs expect more than promises.…

The Prime Minister of the Congo presented his general political speech to the National Assembly in Brazzaville on Monday. Anatole Collinet Makosso took office on 12 May, clarifying the main tasks of her government. Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso outlined the 12 major battles his government intends to wage. Firstly,…

Agents from Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba General Hospital in Oyo (North), the fortress of Congolese head of state Denis Sassou-Nguesso, have launched an indefinite strike since Friday, June 18. They require the authorities to pay at least seven months' arrears on wages registered in this facility, the latest of this scale being introduced in the country.…

One month after joining the government, the son of Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso was in the middle of a ministerial campaign. Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso spoke on Friday 18 June on one of the most important issues in his portfolio of ministers: promoting public-private partnerships. In a "contact" with economic…

It was by publishing in 1971, 50 years ago, his first fiction, Tribaliques, that the Congolese Henri Lopes made himself known. Awarded the following year the main literary prize in Black Africa, this collection of short stories enabled the author to establish his reputation as an attentive witness to the wealth and misfortune of independent Africa. Lopes leads a dual political and literary career and has established himself as an essential writer, author of an important work, located between social criticism and…

The authorities have just renewed the state of health for the 22nd time in a row, since March 2020, thus maintaining the curfew in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire or even the closure of nightclubs. The population says they are tired and asks for relaxation of the curfew that intervenes on weekends and holidays from kl. as reported…

In its annual report on economic reform, the Central African Economic Community points out the shortcomings in the mobilization of budget revenues in Congo-Brazzaville. From our correspondent in Brazzaville,According to its 2020 report, in the first pillar of budgetary policy, PREF-Cemac could not achieve certain objectives, in…

La Sape, the company of atmospheres and elegant people, was developed in the 1970s between the two Congos. Séverin Mouyengo witnessed this before becoming one of its greatest protagonists. With pedagogy, vitality and humor, he retracts the long journey that remained almost immobile for a long time between Pointe-Noire and Brazza.…

Decades old, built in the lowlands of northern Brazzaville, the Jacques Opangault district has more than 35,000 residents who say they are "abandoned". The development of the only access road to this residential area, which was launched in 2018, suddenly stopped. The then mayor of the capital who initiated them, accused of…