- Vol 45 No 15
- 21st July 2004
The IMF has finally persuaded Congo to explain where all the
money goes
- Vol 45 No 15
- 21st July 2004
Disclosing your exports is one thing, international monitoring is quite another. A review mission of the Kimberley Process monitoring the international diamond trade, led by the Chairman of the South African Diamond Board, Abbey Chikane, could hardly fail...
- Vol 45 No 9
- 30th April 2004
As the President boosts his family's power, the ruling coalition is cracking up
- Vol 45 No 9
- 30th April 2004
President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's trusted advisors include: Emmanuel Yoka, the President's uncle and directeur de cabinet. A lawyer and former Ambassador to Morocco, he headed the commission that revised the constitution. Firmin Ayessa, deputy head of ...
- Vol 44 No 24
- 5th December 2003
As questions are raised about oil production, cash and crude both need a clean up
- Vol 43 No 23
- 22nd November 2002
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
After five transitional years, the former President has a new mandate – of sorts
- Vol 43 No 12
- 14th June 2002
President Sassou Nguesso claims a mandate but has restarted the civil war
- Vol 43 No 12
- 14th June 2002
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 a...
- Vol 43 No 6
- 22nd March 2002
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...