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Claudia Sassou N’Guesso and Claude Wilfrid Etoka sealed their civil union at Brazzaville’s Palais des Congrès on June 20, 2026, in a ceremony attended by the DRC Prime Minister and …
Eleven Congolese civil society groups reject a May 2026 order requiring ministerial approval to reach indigenous communities, calling it unconstitutional and liberticidal.
Congolese retirees publicly denounced on June 15, 2026 more than 51 months of unpaid pension arrears, deepening social tensions in a country already facing fuel shortages, power cuts and water …
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.
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