Politics

Calls for affordable candidacies Before a packed press room in Brazzaville on 9 October, Minister-Commissioner Dominique Basseyla, who heads the ad-hoc committee monitoring the 2015 Sibiti National Dialogue, dissected what …

A pivotal ordinary session set for mid-October Under the high, vaulted ceilings of the Palais du Parlement, the co-ordinated hum of preparation is intensifying. Both the Senate and the National …

Cabinet Session in Oyo Signals Reform Momentum Meeting on 7 October in the northern town of Oyo, the Council of Ministers endorsed a draft bill revising and supplementing Electoral Law …

A Milestone Session in Brazzaville For four days, from 22 to 25 September 2025, the marble-floored headquarters of the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) in Brazzaville became the epicentre …

A milestone in Congo’s decentralisation drive A hundred kilometres north of Brazzaville, the town of Odziba vibrated with drumming and ululations as Interior and Decentralisation Minister Raymond Zéphirin Mboulou placed …

Strike announcement stirs academic community Barely a fortnight after schools reopened, the Forces Unies des Syndicats de l’Enseignement du Congo (Fusynec) has set 6 October as the starting date for …

Symbolic act ignites the enrolment phase When the Minister of Urban Sanitation, Local Development and Road Maintenance, Juste Désiré Mondélé, stepped into a modest registration office in Brazzaville’s fifth arrondissement, …

A fresh spotlight on three decades of Congolese history When the Brazzaville-based imprint Alliance Koongo released Ramsès Bongolo’s “Lumière sur la République du Congo, la grande alchimie patriotique” this month, …

Women reshape the electoral landscape In a packed hall at the Mpila headquarters of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), Charlotte Opimbat’s voice carried an unmistakable urgency. As federal president of …