Denis Sassou-Nguesso

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)...

Africa votes in 2016 Country Date Type Uganda February General Yoweri Museveni repressed opposition and fixed vote CAR February-March Presidential & legislative Sporadic organisational problems Niger February-March Presidential & legislative Mahamadou Issoufou won presidential vote in 2nd round after fixes Cape Verde March Legislative Widely seen as credible Benin March Presidential Over 30 contenders and credible poll Congo-Brazzaville March Presidential Denis Sassou-Nguesso pushed constitutional changes fixed election Tanzania (Zanzibar) March Regional Zanzibar election rerun widely condemned Senegal March Referendum Credible vote after hesitation on reforms Comoros February-April Presidential Constitutional court to decide on 2nd round vote Sudan April Referendum on Darfur Omer el Beshir repressed opposition fixed vote threatens new offensive Equatorial Guinea April Presidential Teodoro Obiang repressed opposition and fixed vote Chad April Presidential Idriss Déby Itno repressed opposition and fixed vote Djibouti April Presidential Ismaïl Omar Guelleh repressed opposition and fixed vote Gabon August Presidential Ali Ben Bongo in tight race history of fixing Zambia August Presidential Edgar Lungu in tight race; his supporters threaten opposition Cape Verde August Presidential Shootings raise tension South Africa August Local elections Critical test of Jacob Zuma's leadership...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won re-election on 20 March in a poll organised to ensure his success (AC Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest & Vol 57 No 8 Post-election gunfire)...

Widespread anger was a feature of public reaction to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's widely discredited re-election last month but few expected it to turn into armed violence (AC Vol 57 No 7 Sassou makes it modest)...