Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Although he has long since traded in his uniform to rule as a civilian president Denis Sassou-Nguesso likes to be associated with the pomp and power of the Forces armées congolaises...

For President Denis Sassou-Nguesso the benefits of the boom could prove more tangible: a practical response to his critics who accuse him of presiding over decades of political repression grand corruption and a stagnant economy...

The development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) has been on the agenda of Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s government since 2009 but the details are only now becoming clear...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won’t allow the extradition recalling the fate of a rebel Pierre Mulele whom he returned to the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in 1968: Mobutu executed him...

An investigating magistrate was appointed and a judicial inquiry opened into how assets had been acquired by three foreign heads of state and their families the others being Congo-Brazzaville’s Denis Sassou Nguesso and Gabon’s late Omar Bongo...

It was a far cry from 2007 when Karim attended Bourgi’s investiture in France’s Légion d’Honneur as did the children of other presidents he had long counselled such as Omar Bongo Ondimba and Denis Sassou-Nguesso...

President Zuma spent several hours with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in Tripoli in the company of fellow members of the AU delegation – and fellow past recipients of the Libyan leader’s largesse – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville President Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping of Gabon...

The case has benefitted from the successful appeal by TI and Sherpa in December against the dismissal by the Paris Prosecutor of the 'Biens mal acquis' (BMA ill gotten goods) case in which the NGOs tried to force a prosecution of three presidents - Gabon's late Omar Bongo Ondimba Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - their families and entourages for embezzling state funds...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s government is pushing for the development of three special economic zones on the Chinese model to help prepare for a post-oil future...

The most awkward political issue is the suspected involvement of two presidents in the affair - Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea...