Politics

A Mauritanian envoy travelled to Brazzaville to win President Sassou N’Guesso’s support for Koumba Ba’s candidacy to lead the Francophonie.

Congo-Brazzaville races to host the 61st AfDB and 52nd ADF Annual Meetings on 25-29 May 2026, drawing 3,000 delegates and reframing development finance.

At Congo-Brazzaville’s first cabinet of the new term, Sassou N’Guesso set priorities: digitised administration, the Congo-Ocean railway, roads, power and water.

Stev Onanga has taken office as Congo-Brazzaville’s Hydrocarbons Minister in a reshuffle that followed the reappointment of PM Anatole Collinet Makosso.

Congo-Brazzaville’s new State Control minister Noel Leonard Essongo presses senior officials for measurable anti-corruption and public-service outcomes.

President Sassou N’Guesso joined Gabon’s Oligui Nguema in Libreville to inaugurate the Omar Bongo Ondimba congress hall, reaffirming Congo-Gabon ties.

Congo’s RFC coalition recasts the heavy abstention in the March 2026 presidential vote as a deliberate political verdict and a first step toward change.

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, the Jeune Écrivain du Congo urged better conditions for Brazzaville’s journalists and stronger guarantees for independent reporting.

On May Day, Congo-Brazzaville’s CSTC urged the new Makosso II government to deliver innovative fixes for unpaid wages in hospitals and at Marien-Ngouabi University.