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.
David Nseka
-
-
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.
-
Congo-Brazzaville’s first cabinet of the 2026-2031 term backed a sovereign wealth fund, FCFA 143.8bn for Congo Telecom and an administrative digitisation drive.
-
Stev Onanga has taken office as Congo-Brazzaville’s Hydrocarbons Minister in a reshuffle that followed the reappointment of PM Anatole Collinet Makosso.
-
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.
-
Congolese rights group PAJED alleges a court-appointed custodian mismanaged the late Adel Barayo’s estate, citing 78 million CFA francs unaccounted for, and urges a judicial inquiry.
-
Congo-Brazzaville’s new Minister of State Luc-Joseph Okio commits to transparency, responsiveness and respect for parliamentary prerogatives.