Aviation Security

A Presidential Warning Resonates in Brazzaville Standing before both chambers of Parliament on 28 November, President Denis Sassou Nguesso delivered a message whose central chord was security. Declaring that the …

Congo coastal villages rally for safety The sun-baked tracks linking Pounga, Dimonika, Voilà and the D6 junction seldom make national headlines, yet the arteries of Kouilou have become the stage …

Presidential audience sets cooperative tone Late on 23 October, the vast reception room of the Plateau presidential residence filled with the measured cadence of ecclesiastical greetings. Archbishop Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou, …

A tense night over Kinshasa skies In the small hours of 12 September the pilots of Republic of the Congo’s national airline, approaching Brazzaville from Pointe-Noire, received an unusual radio …