Caritas launch draws attention in Pointe-Noire Under the shade of the Polio Centre’s courtyard in Pointe-Noire, more than one hundred elderly residents queued quietly as Caritas volunteers handed over rice, …
Franco-Congolese digital pact In late August, Senator Aristide Ngama Ngakosso welcomed French ambassador Claire Bodonyi to the marble halls of Brazzaville’s upper chamber. Their meeting, formally framed as a routine …
Rising street crime alarms Brazzaville Twilight in several northern districts of Brazzaville now arrives with shopkeepers locking shutters early, wary of sudden rushes by armed youths everyone calls “bébés noirs.” …
Legacy in Print At dusk in Brazzaville’s Maison des Écrivains, physician-turned-author Richel Pyerre Ibombo raised a slim volume, his hands betraying emotion beneath the white coat. The audience of officials …
Genealogical puzzles still unsolved More than a millennium after the rise of the Kongo kingdom, the identity of its reputed founder, King Nimi Lukeni, still fuels energetic academic debate. Ethnologists, …
Renewed Spotlight on Parliamentary Oversight On 20 August, National Assembly Speaker Isidore Mvouba closed the ninth ordinary session with a firm reminder that Parliament must “mark the government at the …
Bordeaux Election Sends Ripples Through Francophone Capitals On 21 August 2025, delegates gathered in Bordeaux quietly endorsed economist Pierre Bertinotti as Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France. The …
A symbolic arrival on the right bank When Jonathan Lumbeya Masuta steps off the ferry on 23 August, the president of the Forum International de la Jeunesse pour le Développement …
Brazzaville Conclave Sets 2026 Election Tone Inside the sunlit hall of Brazzaville’s prefecture, 280 national counsellors of the Republican Dynamic for Development, better known as DRD, converged on 21 August …
Congo-France parliamentary ties deepen On 21 August in Brazzaville, Ambassador Claire Bodonyi sat across Senator Aristide Ngama Ngakosso, chair of the Congo-France friendship group, to review the memorandum signed earlier …
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