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Congo's 'Nintendo election' was rigged from the start, observer says

Civil society groups in Congo-Brazzaville are challenging the integrity of last weekend's presidential election, which handed veteran leader Denis Sassou Nguesso a fifth term in office. Bertrand Menier Kounianga, spokesperson for the civil society platform CAPGED, tells RFI the vote was “rigged from start to finish”.

Radio France Internationale

Low turnout in Congo-Brazzaville presidential poll expected to extend Sassou’s rule

Votes are being counted in the Republic of Congo after a day of voting Sunday in a presidential election that is expected to extend President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s rule for a fifth term.

Radio France Internationale

Congo-Brazzaville's Sassou Nguesso set to extend four-decade rule

Congo-Brazzaville holds elections Sunday in a vote expected to extend 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso's more than four decades in power in the oil-rich central African country. Observers say voter turnout could reach a record low.

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Congo-Brazzaville returns to global stock markets after almost 20 years

The Republic of the Congo this week entered the international bond market for the first time since 2007, signalling a new confidence in its economic reforms and fiscal management.

Radio France Internationale

The big picture: Henry Roy’s sleeping girl in Congo-Brazzaville

The Franco-Haitian artist’s 2002 portrait exemplifies his gift for taking photographs that transcend time and place

The Guardian - UK

US President Joe Biden urges world to stop arming rival generals in Sudan

After 17 months of a devastating conflict in Sudan, US President Joe Biden calls on the world to stop arming the warring generals. Also, the government in DR Congo frees over 1,500 prisoners detained in the notorious Makala prison, weeks after an deadly attempted jailbreak from the facility. Plus, residents…

France 24

As rainforests worldwide disappear, burn and degrade, a summit to protect them opens in Brazzaville

Leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and other countries with the three largest tropical forest basins are meeting to form a coalition to protect tropical forests from deforestation and destruction

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What we know about Mark Ciavarella's alleged murder in the Republic of the Congo

The family of an Australian teacher thought to have died in Central Africa were told he was planning to return home before he disappeared in October.

ABC News

African forests ‘emptied of wildlife’ as 10,000 wild meat dishes served in city restaurants daily

Illegal hunting hastening extinctions as customers demand flesh of monkeys, antelopes and porcupines

The Independent UK

A decade on, Congo remembers Brazzaville's deadly arms depot blasts

This Friday marks exactly 10 years since a deadly series of blasts at an arms depot in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo. Some 300 people were killed and more than 2,500 injured in the explosions, which also destroyed thousands of homes, leaving 17,000 families needing shelter. A…

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