They have been used to provide huge unaccountable revenue streams to Congo-B President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his son Denis-Christel 'Kiki' and to avoid claims by the country's creditors (AC Vol 62 No 2 Sassou soldiers on)...
Although former finance minister Mathias Dzon and other minor candidates have challenged provisional results awarding Denis Sassou-Nguesso a crushing 88...
It came as no surprise when just before Christmas President Denis Sassou-Nguesso was officially nominated by the ruling Parti Congolais du Travail (PCT) as its candidate in the 21 March presidential election...
Vol 61 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The non-profit amaBhungane centre for investigate journalism published an unflattering profile on 18 September alleging he provided favours to Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Malawi's President Joyce Banda as reported in Africa Confidential (AC Vol 55 No 3 Banda and the jets)...
Its popularity was helped by the fact that President Denis Sassou-Nguesso after the intervention of Touadéra summoned Meckassoua and Bozizé to his home village of Oyo to hear what they had to say about it...
Ramaphosa then flew to Congo-Brazzaville for the AU's High-Level Committee on Libya which is headed by President Denis Sassou-Nguesso...
Condé is also close to other influential 'third-termers': Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame...
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...