Independence Night Under Unlit Skies When fireworks lit Brazzaville on 15 August for Congo-Brazzaville’s 65th independence anniversary, residents of Mossendjo watched under a dark sky. The southern city, once branded …
Congo Brazzaville
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UNESCO leadership race intensifies On the banks of the Seine this October, UNESCO’s executive board will open a ballot that has already electrified diplomatic circles. Three seasoned contenders—Mexico’s Gabriela Ramos, …
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Adolescent SRH Policy Momentum in Congo Inside a modest conference hall in Brazzaville, health officials, donor representatives and youth delegates spent a week debating a single premise: that teenagers should …
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Kintélé Summit Signals Regulatory Momentum The banks of the Djiri River are an unlikely setting for a continental finance story, yet diplomats converging on Kintélé last week quietly edged Africa …
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Continental Pitches as Soft-Power Stages When twenty-one-year-old Aurel Loubongo drilled his ninth-minute opener for VfB Oldenburg in Germany’s Regionalliga Nord, few in the modest crowd of Norderstedt would have associated …
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Ceremonial Transfer of the National Emblem At the federation’s headquarters in Brazzaville, a midday hush yielded to rousing applause as Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas — the long-serving president of the Congolese …