Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Few countries can ever have warranted as terse a press release as that issued by the International Monetary Fund on the meeting of its chief Christine Lagarde with President Denis Sassou-Nguesso on 19 September in New York at the United Nations General Assembly...

His attempt over the past six months to return to the world of spin – with Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso – has been less than successful though not without drama perhaps farce...

Amid insurgency and failing political legitimacy eleven members of veteran President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's family are standing in the general elections on 16 July...

ESL Agence Publics and Brussels-based Aspect Consulting were also hired via the Israeli firm Shaviv Strategy and Campaigns – which counts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among its clients – to coordinate Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's re-election campaign in April 2016 and promote the work of the electoral commission the Commission nationale électorale indépendante (AC Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest)...

In 2006 Congo-B President Denis Sassou-Nguesso spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on several K Street firms...

Close to French businessman and security consultant Jean-Yves Ollivier and Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Ledeen wants the USA to get more active in Libya (AC Vol 41 No 17 Bemba's boys)...

Mokoko was President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's army chief of staff until the early 1990s and a military advisor until last February...

Should this happen Condé will follow the example of his close friend Denis Sassou-Nguesso President of Congo-Brazzaville who has used the potent combination of constitution tampering by popular demand vote buying intimidation and bloody repression to keep himself in power (Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest Vol 57 No 8 Post-election gunfire)...

Joyce has also attracted criticism for publicly supporting the re-election of Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and attacking those who questioned the legitimacy of his change of the constitution to permit him further terms of office as well as those who disputed the fairness of his re-election in March (AC Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest)...

Déby followed the example recently set by among others President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo-Brazzaville in temporarily shutting down the mobile phone network and curbing internet access (AC Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest)...