High-profile seizure in Impfondo grips Likouala The late-August arrest of a forty-year-old Congolese woman in Impfondo, Likouala, over two leopard skins and several kilograms of giant pangolin scales startled even …
Samuel Okema
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Emergency Fund Signals Swift Action The Congolese Red Cross, backed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, unfurled an Emergency Disaster Relief Fund in Brazzaville on …
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Environment
Brazzaville Summit Unites Africa on Plant Health Standards
by Samuel Okemaby Samuel OkemaBrazzaville hosts continental plant health forum At dawn on 26 August, the marble halls of the Kintélé convention complex filled rapidly, signalling Congo-Brazzaville’s firmly rising profile as a convening power. …
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Launch in Odziba signals new momentum Visitors landing on the red-soiled airstrip at Odziba last week saw an unusual sight: yellow-vested residents clearing drains, sorting plastic and planting vetiver grass. …
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Wildlife Crime Crackdown Gains Momentum From the Atlantic coast to the dense forests of Likouala, Congolese officers in jade-green uniforms have spent the first seven months of 2025 tracking traffickers …
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High-Intensity Labour Method Gains Ground in Pool Region On 8 August, more than one thousand residents of Odziba, Ngabé, Mpoumako, Inoni Falaise and Inoni Plateau gathered at dawn, shovels in …
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A Congolese Research Hub Turns 20 Two decades ago a handful of doctoral candidates in Evry, France, launched the Congo Basin Strategic Studies Center, better known by its French acronym …
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National momentum around health governance When Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso opened the second ordinary session of the National Health Council in Kintélé, the symbolism was unmistakable. Forty-one years after …
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Brazzaville Hosts Vibrant Woodcraft Fair Beneath the shade of towering sapelli trees, the fourth Congo Wood Trades Fair opened in Brazzaville on 11 August, extending until 25 August, and featuring …
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Geography and Early Trade Networks The Republic of the Congo stretches from the Atlantic shore to the vast forested plateau north of the mighty Congo River, a strategic corridor that …