Denis Sassou-Nguesso

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...

Close to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Lopes (also a writer) has been important in contacts with Sassou's exiled opponents...

They were joined by unemployed Yakoma youths and reinforced by Rwandan fighters - probably Hutus rescued by France during the notorious Opération Turquoise in 1994 who fought for President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo-Brazzaville's civil war and then took refuge in CAR...