The BRDC knows that chances of meaningful agreement are almost nil which is why they constantly refer to the Angolan president João Lourenço who took over from President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville as the regional mediator in 2017...

Other African leaders such as Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso one of the most prolific African clients on K-Street are taking a bet on start-ups...

The current book he says fulfils his promise to the man who used to call him ‘fiston' (‘son') though it also details the contributions presidents Laurent Gbagbo Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Blaise Compaoré also made to the Elysée...

Many leaders decline to pick sides in that war but others such as Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso extol Moscow's role in Africa: ‘African people have experienced a period of growth and gained power in their fight against colonialism and for liberation...

Ben-Menashe's African clients include the military junta in Burkina Faso Sudan's General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti and Congo-Brazzaville's president Denis Sassou-Nguesso...

President Emmanuel Macron was also very warm to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso at the Financing Pact Summit...

But in Brazzaville – under Denis Sassou-Nguesso's authoritarian sway for all but five of the past 43 years – it will be harder to escape echoes of old françafrique complicity while Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi is sure to push for more assertive French condemnation of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels threatening Goma...

Beya's associates have been waiting to see if his old friend Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso would try to save him...