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Congo-Brazzaville

Population: 4 million
GNI: $3800 million
Debt: $5200 million
Overview: Having co-opted the main opposition politicians in the 2007 elections, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso will campaign for another presidential term. His international standing is worse than ever.

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  • Vol 41 No 25
  • 22/12/2000

End of empire

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

  • Vol 41 No 16
  • 04/08/2000

Now the economic battle

Despite all the killling, the government has to worry more about money than politics

  • Vol 40 No 21
  • 22/10/1999

Danse macabre

In their ekonga initiation dance, young warriors from northern Congo chant 'Boma !', meaning 'Kill!' The 'Cobra' militiamen who follow General Denis Sassou-Nguesso have often used the word in recent weeks, as they try to drive the 'Ninjas' (militias o...

  • Vol 40 No 17
  • 27/08/1999

Manège à trois

Mysterious documents are doing the rounds in Paris claiming that Sassou wants to retire

  • Vol 40 No 14
  • 09/07/1999

Fighting talk

Under fire, strongman Sassou is sending secret messages to his enemies

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

Look in The Mirror

Who sent sent a putschist’s shopping list of arms and mercenaries, purportedly drawn up by ousted Congo-Brazzaville President Pascal Lissouba to a mass circulation London tabloid, the Daily Mirror? The claimed target of the plot, President Dénis Sassou-Ng...

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