Denis Sassou-Nguesso

On 30 January he met the Organisation of African Unity-appointed facilitator of the Congolese national dialogue Botswana's ex-President Ketumile Masire to propose that he be a member of a 'Council of African Presidents' probably alongside Omar Bongo of Gabon and Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the other Congo...

Rwanda is also trying to use Angolan allies such as President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Gabon's Omar Bongo and Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano as channels...

The latest would-be peacemaker for Congo-Kinshasa is the President of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville Denis Sassou Nguesso...

Local suspicions that deep-water contracts with Chevron ExxonMobil TotalFinaElf and BP were too generous to the operators were fuelled by President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville who is close to the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola ...

Reports of the discussions show a rapprochement between Angola Rwanda (which backs the opposition Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma) Uganda (which backs two rebel groups - the RCD-Kisangani and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo) and Congo-Brazzaville whose President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is one of Angola's key regional allies...

Kabila's strategists failed to take account of the experience of ALC officers like Major Dieugentil Alembia who before joining Bemba fought in Congo-B's civil war in the Cobra militias of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso then led rebels of the now defunct Union des Nationalistes Republicains pour la Libération (Unarel) in February 1999 when they captured Bolobo town in Bandundu...

Several hundred troops from the President's old ally Angola ensure his regime's security; the Congo of Denis Sassou-Nguesso Mark II is still far from salvation...

He is close to Presidents Omar Bongo of Gabon and Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville (who probably helped with his campaign finances)...

' The 'Cobra' militiamen who follow General Denis Sassou-Nguesso have often used the word in recent weeks as they try to drive the 'Ninjas' (militias of ex-Premier Bernard Kolélas) out of Pool Region (AC Vol 21 No 17)...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso who overthrew the elected President Pascal Lissouba in November 1997 presides over an unpopular shaky and brutal military regime...