Denis Sassou-Nguesso

In Paris after a complaint by the non-governmental organisations Sherpa and Survie the Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating allegations that Bongo's clan (and his father-in-law Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's family) used pilfered money to build a hotel and property empire...

Adada (61) the joint UN-AU Special Envoy agreed by AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's Foreign Minister for ten years and is a presidential confidant...

Back-room dealing is habitual in Congo-Brazzaville where President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his Parti Congolais du Travail (PCT) lead a coalition of 30 parties the Forces Démocratiques Unies (FDU)...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's government is neither clean enough nor competent enough to qualify for aid (AC Vol 47 No 2)...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has used his political skills to divide and marginalise Congo-Brazzaville's opposition...

He did not know if Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Chair of NePAD's top-level Implementation Committee or Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso Chair of the AU would take up his proposal...

Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso has used his stint as African Union Chairman to his political advantage and the AU summit in Addis Ababa at the end of January is likely to give him another six months to avoid the shame of allowing Sudan’s Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir taking over as promised last year...

Those may not be much help for Bemba because Congo-Brazzaville President and AU Chairman Denis Sassou Nguesso has little interest in stirring up trouble across the Congo river...

Much of the problem lay with its lightweight host President Yahya Jammeh whose lack of knowledge about the substantive issues in Sudan and Somalia was matched by AU Chairman Denis Sassou Nguesso's unwillingness to take initiatives...

The 16-member International Working Group jointly chaired by Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and UN Special Representative Pierre Schori is likely to back Banny...