Denis Sassou-Nguesso

On the face of it it is just another lucrative lobbying deal with Israeli arms dealer turned lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe bagging another US$1 million contract to add Tunisian media mogul and presidential hopeful Nabil Karoui to a client list that includes Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti deputy leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (AC Vol 60 No 16 Lobbyist of last resort)...

Also on his books is Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso on a $2 million contract...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso appears again to have secured victory over the International Monetary Fund obtaining an urgently needed bail-out in exchange for promises that he has made and broken many times over the previous two decades...

Six heads of state attended including Rwandan President Paul Kagame Angolan President João Lourenço and Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso which was five more than attended the inauguration of Tshisekedi's son Félix Tshisekedi as President in January...

Meckassoua whose important friends also include President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville has been taking advantage of CAR's new constitution and exercising parliament's right to hold government to account...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is no stranger to Washington's K Street where all the major United States lobbying firms are found having previously hired lobbyists to campaign against so-called vulture funds and to help win debt relief...

President Touadéra first alienated President Idriss Déby Itno of Chad and President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville key mediators and sponsors in CAR's internal affairs and foreign relations...

M6 has dazzled his hosts with his energetic regional diplomacy and lightning tours of the continent dropping in on old friends such as President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and old schoolmate President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon but the lustre threatens to wear thin...

Later he became an advisor to President Abdoulaye Wade in Senegal (2000-12) and friend of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso seems in several minds about what to do with the opposition...