Denis Sassou-Nguesso

The victory of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in 12 July presidential elections is all but assured after the Constitutional Court disqualified former Premier Ange-Edouard Poungui on the grounds that he had not lived continuously in Congo for the last two years...

Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo Paul Biya Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...

Next month’s elections do not scare the regime of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso...

Former foes return At the elections in 2002 Denis Sassou-Nguesso converted himself into a constitutional ruler five years after seizing power through the 1997 civil war...

The leading challengers to Sassou-Nguesso Ange-Edouard Poungui: 65; central bank chief measured technocrat; Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s Premier in the ‘Marxist’ 1980s; candidate of Pascal Lissouba’s Union Panafricaine pour la Démocratie Sociale and small opposition parties in the Alliance pour une Nouvelle République...

On 5 May a senior French investigating magistrate Françoise Desset decided (after its third rejection) that a case backed by anti-corruption organisations against Bongo Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo could proceed...

The decision may force the reopening of a 2007 police investigation into the assets of Presidents Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea)and Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Congo-Brazzaville) that was abruptly shut down...

Three days earlier Mwinda had published an interview with Toungamani who accused President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of corruption...

As daughter of Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Edith provided a vital regional link...

Sarkozy's trip to Brazzaville where President Denis Sassou-Nguesso faces accusations of grand corruption and extra-judicial killings will be made more difficult by a wave of documents detailing links between his regime and senior French officials...

Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for theft of public funds...