Politics

Independent scholar Vivien Romain Manangou makes his first presidential bid in Congo-Brazzaville, vowing to clean up public finances and curb poverty against Sassou N’Guesso.

At 82, Denis Sassou-Nguesso campaigns for a final five-year term in Congo-Brazzaville’s March 2026 vote, amid poverty, a thin opposition and jailed rivals.

As Congo-Brazzaville heads to a March 15 vote, rights advocate Joe Washington Ebina calls Sassou-Nguesso’s expected fifth term a ‘non-event’ that ignores daily hardships.

In Dolisie, Denis Sassou N’Guesso met Congo’s business leaders, who pressed for local content and fair public tenders while he stressed competitiveness.

Incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso opened his presidential campaign with vast rallies across Niari and Bouenza, pledging farm mechanisation, jobs and rail renewal.

Brazzaville’s OCDH unveils its 2025-2026 report documenting some fifty enforced disappearances and urges presidential candidates to put human rights first.