Michael Mabiala

Eleven Congolese civil society groups reject a May 2026 order requiring ministerial approval to reach indigenous communities, calling it unconstitutional and liberticidal.

The RPDH annual report 2024–2025 gave Congo-Brazzaville a 2.5 out of 5 score on civic environment, warning that administrative hurdles and a justice ministry authorization requirement are squeezing civil society …

MP Hellot Matson Mampouya survived an armed ambush in Congo-Brazzaville’s Pool region on June 6, 2026, after eight gunmen torched his convoy and seized his diplomatic passport.

An AJPI legal expert denounces summary executions of young suspects by Congo’s presidential security force and the total impunity its agents enjoy.

A dozen Congolese civil society groups denounced a Justice Ministry note requiring prior written permission to work with indigenous populations as unconstitutional.

Six illegal passport brokers were caught red-handed inside the Brazzaville prefecture compound, triggering a wider investigation that has placed 56 police officers under suspicion of complicity in the fraud network.

Congo’s Interior Ministry arrests six fixers and flags 56 complicit officers in a sweeping crackdown on passport bribery in Brazzaville.

In Nzima, southern Congo-Brazzaville, the Nzobi initiation ceremony brings together song, fire and ancestral knowledge in a rite that bridges generations in the Niari department.

The Congolese government announced on May 13, 2026, that it referred domestic violence allegations involving a cabinet member to the judiciary, acting under the 2022 Mouebara law even without a …