Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Congo-Brazzaville's hidden conflict and flawed parliamentary elections show how thin a veneer of democracy covers recycled dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso...

Northerners control the army many are ex-Cobras President Denis Sassou Nguesso's militia of the mid-1990s civil war...

So there will be a welcome if few favours for the African leaders who claim to be Chirac's friends notably Presidents Omar Bongo (Gabon) Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo) Lansana Conté (Guinea) Paul Biya (Cameroon) and Denis Sassou-Nguesso once lauded by Chirac as the man to hold Congo-Brazzaville together (AC Vol 42 No 25)...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won a crushing Cold War-like 89...

In Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso looks set to secure an easy 20 January referendum endorsement of the new constitution...

In mid-December Rael was visiting Congo-Brazzaville by invitation of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso himself...

Elf merged in 1998-9 with Franco-Belgian giant TotalFina used to be a furtive arm of French policy in Africa with special links to among others Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso...

The latest leader accused in Belgium of 'crimes against humanity' is President Denis Sassou Nguesso...

Among others in activists' sights are Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou Nguesso and Chad's Idriss Déby and Hissène Habré...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso (AC Vol 42 No 7) will refer it to the people this year...