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.
ARD leader Mathias Dzon opposes Congo’s 2027 visa-free opening to Africans, warns of debt at 120% of GDP and decries passport mismanagement.
An AJPI legal expert denounces summary executions of young suspects by Congo’s presidential security force and the total impunity its agents enjoy.
Congo-Brazzaville’s senators open the 9th ordinary session with twelve files, from anti-tribalism and reproductive health to deals with Russia and Cuba.
Congo launches an industrialisation strategy around Mayoko iron ore, with on-site processing, Pointe-Noire steel output and a railway rehabilitation.
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-Brazzaville joined the Korea-Africa Forum ministerial in Seoul as Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso reviewed the Seoul Declaration and the road to 2029.
Congo’s Interior Ministry arrests six fixers and flags 56 complicit officers in a sweeping crackdown on passport bribery in Brazzaville.
Congo signed a BADEA financing deal to extend Brazzaville’s southern corniche for 47 billion FCFA and build a new government city downtown.
Moody’s Ratings has upgraded the Republic of Congo’s sovereign outlook from stable to positive in May 2026, maintaining a Caa2 rating while recognising a gradual improvement in Brazzaville’s credit profile …
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