Congo-Brazzaville

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 Quiet Yet Firm Campaign Takes Shape When Ngatsé Itoua Mbola, secretary for economic affairs at the Federation of Professional Transport Workers of Congo, arrived at the bustling Total market …

Sapeurs Turn Peace Day into a Chromatic Manifesto On 21 September, officially recognised by the United Nations as the International Day of Peace, the first arrondissement of Brazzaville awakened to …

Manila at the Heart of a Global Conversation On 29 and 30 September the Philippine capital will become the epicentre of a tradition that, year after year, acquires greater geopolitical …

A last salute to a master of the frame The late Anicet Rodrigue Mongala, affectionately known in newsrooms as “Trépied”, was laid to rest on 18 September 2025 in the …

Renewed Horizons for a Servant Ministry When the Second Vatican Council restored the permanent diaconate, it offered local Churches a pastoral instrument expressly configured to Christ the Servant. Six decades …

Congo Diplomacy at UNGA 80 From 23 to 29 September, President Denis Sassou Nguesso will stride onto the marble rostrum of the United Nations for the 80th General Assembly, a …

Brazzaville signals a data-driven era For three days in mid-September 2025, a conference room in central Brazzaville became the nerve centre of Congo-Brazzaville’s latest fiscal modernisation effort. Thirty senior officials …

Regional snapshot of non-performing loans The 2024 annual report released by the Central African Banking Commission, COBAC, offers a rare x-ray of the six-nation CEMAC microfinance landscape. It registers 178 …