Congo’s Council of Ministers, chaired by Denis Sassou N’Guesso, adopted five decrees on 22 July 2026, spanning health, forestry, oil and education reform.
Higher Education
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At a Brazzaville roundtable, the Ciespac confronts the entrenched sex-for-grades trade corroding higher education across Central Africa.
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Brazzaville negotiations to restore academic continuity Brazzaville hosted renewed high-level consultations on 5 January as Congo-Brazzaville’s Minister of Higher Education, Delphine Édith Emmanuel, convened a working session with the inter-union …
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Congolese Students Depart for Russian Universities A rare hush fell over the normally lively esplanade of Brazzaville’s international airport on 9 December as families, academics and diplomats gathered to salute …
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Symbolic send-off at the Algerian chancery Inside the whitewashed walls of the Algerian embassy in Brazzaville, Ambassador Azeddine Riache welcomed the latest cohort of Congolese scholarship-holders bound for Algiers. The …
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Government-backed journey to Algerian campuses Inside the Ministry of Technical and Vocational Education, twenty-seven scholarship winners listened attentively to Minister Ghislain Thierry Maguessa Ebomé and Algerian Ambassador Azéddine Riarche. The …
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Calm Shattered on the Brazzaville Campus Until recently the sprawling avenues of Marien Ngouabi University, a few blocks from the Congo River, bustled with lectures, registration queues and student debates. …
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Alarm Bells in the Lecture Halls In the corridors of Université Marien Ngouabi, the country’s flagship public institution, conversations have shifted from research projects to pay slips. On 3 October, …
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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 …
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Brazzaville Emerges as an Intellectual Hub In early August 2025, the normally tranquil corridors of the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences at the University Marien-Ngouabi reverberated with animated …