At the June 18 cabinet meeting, Sassou N’Guesso pushed to speed up Pointe-Noire roads, the THT power line, Loango university and Maloukou industrial zone.
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Congo signed a BADEA financing deal to extend Brazzaville’s southern corniche for 47 billion FCFA and build a new government city downtown.
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Congo-Brazzaville and the BADEA signed two financing deals worth $500 million to extend Brazzaville’s Corniche road and deepen its African solidarity fund stake.
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Congo-Brazzaville’s first cabinet meeting of the new term laid out urgent priorities including railway rehabilitation, digital governance, and an injection of capital into Congo Telecom.
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In his inauguration speech, Denis Sassou N’Guesso set out his agriculture, infrastructure, energy and education priorities under the plan to accelerate development.
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Congo-Brazzaville begins a four-year, $595M rehabilitation of the Congo-Ocean Railway with China’s Hunan group to revive its role as a transit hub.
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Experts from both Congos validated a bilateral accord setting common tax rules for the future road-rail bridge linking Brazzaville and Kinshasa.