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Congo-Brazzaville
Population: 3.8 mn.
GDP: 12.0 bn.
Debt: 1.3 bn.
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President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and the ruling PCT are confident of an easy if illegitimate victory in parliamentary elections. French support has helped deflect IMF and World Bank criticism of corruption and mismanagement. France's Total will lead in developing the US$10 bn. Moho Bilondo oil field.

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  • Vol 44 No 24
  •  5th December 2003

Cleaned out

As questions are raised about oil production, cash and crude both need a clean up

  • Vol 43 No 23
  •  22nd November 2002

Price of silence

Under pressure over his human rights record, President Denis Sassou Nguesso on 18 November announced a one-month amnesty for Ninja rebels in the Pool Region to surrender and return to civilian life

  • Vol 43 No 17
  •  30th August 2002

Old guard, new guard

After five transitional years, the former President has a new mandate – of sorts

  • Vol 43 No 12
  •  14th June 2002

By other means

President Sassou Nguesso claims a mandate but has restarted the civil war

  • Vol 43 No 12
  •  14th June 2002

Who's who in Sassou's Congo

P>Northerners control the army, many are ex-Cobras, President Denis Sassou Nguesso's militia of the mid-1990s civil war. Commanded by the respected General Gilbert Mokoki, the military is still somewhat fractured; Sassou has quietly built up his strongest...

  • Vol 43 No 6
  •  22nd March 2002

Back in Brazza

Demoralised opposition leaders must now decide whether to bother contesting the forthcoming legislative elections. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won a crushing, Cold War-like 89.41 per cent in the 10 March presidential poll, on a dubious electoral regist...

  • Vol 42 No 21
  •  26th October 2001

In absentia

The latest leader accused in Belgium of 'crimes against humanity' is President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He joins the distinguished company of: Presidents Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Laurent Gbagbo (Côte d'Ivoire); two serving Ivorian ministers, Moïse...

  • Vol 42 No 17
  •  31st August 2001

Long wait

The draft constitution gives the president full executive powers and two consecutive seven-year terms. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso (AC Vol 42 No 7) will refer it to the people this year.

  • Vol 42 No 7
  •  6th April 2001

Settling Sassou

The President wants a peace process - on his own terms

  • Vol 41 No 25
  •  22nd December 2000

End of empire

The latest would-be peacemaker for Congo-Kinshasa is the President of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso.

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