Congo-Brazzaville

A Sovereign Showcase of Modern Logistics At Brazzaville’s tree-lined Boulevard du 15 Août, the sixty-fifth Independence Day parade held on 15 August 2025 unfolded with studied precision, reflecting the strategic …

Strategic Timing of the Beijing Sojourn When President Denis Sassou Nguesso lands in Beijing in early September, the choreography will be as significant as the communiqués. The Republic of Congo …

Congolese Diaspora and the Politics of Memory When news broke that Paul Tsouarès De M’Poungui had succumbed to illness at Paris’s Cochin Hospital on 30 July 2025, the Congolese community …

Contextualising the Revised Tuition Scale With a discreet decree issued in late July, the board of Marien Ngouabi University—Congo-Brazzaville’s flagship public institution—harmonised a patchwork of ancillary charges into a single …

Global acceleration of restitution diplomacy Diplomatic calendars now feature the return of antiquities with a frequency unthinkable a decade ago. From the United States’ decision to hand over thirty Khmer …

Visibility of erotic imagery in Brazzaville’s markets The narrow corridor separating the bus stop known as Coaster from the stalls of the Total de Bacongo market is rarely quiet. Porters …

Strategic Context of the 65th Independence Parade On 15 August 2025, beneath the broad colonnades of Brazzaville’s Boulevard Alfred Raoul, the Republic of Congo observed its 65th year of independence …

Congo’s Meat Supply and the Overlooked Voyage Long before a plate reaches the dinner table in Brazzaville or Pointe-Noire, a complex journey begins in the grasslands of the Plateaux and …

Female Entrepreneurship Surge in Congo For two months this year a discreet conference room in downtown Brazzaville became a crucible of entrepreneurial experimentation. Thirty emerging business leaders, twenty-eight of them …

A measured recalibration at the heart of Brazzaville The presidential decree of 11 April has discreetly but decisively reconfigured the Bureau of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), the …