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Kintélé hosts sixth tripartite meeting on DRC refugees The Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are meeting in Kintélé from 20 to 22 October for the sixth…

Congo’s electoral administration has begun checking, department by department, whether the groundwork for the legislative and local elections of July 2027 is being laid with the required care.

Brazzaville and Algiers are working to finalise a draft social security agreement, with signature envisaged at the next session of their joint commission.

At the 83rd ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Dakar, Justice Minister Aimé Ange Wilfrid Bininga restated Congo-Brazzaville’s commitments under the African Charter, citing new consultative bodies and the 2010 child…

Congo’s telecoms regulator has paired a frank diagnosis of the sector with a national addressing scheme.

An extraordinary session convened under pressure The board of directors of Congo’s Road Fund met in Brazzaville on 16 October for its 25th extraordinary session, chaired by Yves Ickonga.

Congo-Brazzaville’s two parliamentary chambers opened their budget sessions on 15 October, with seventy days to scrutinise and adopt the 2027 finance bill.

Received in Brazzaville on 16 October, the newly installed executive of the Economic Community of Central African States sought President Denis Sassou N’Guesso’s guidance on infrastructure, intra-regional trade and the free movement of people and goods, a…

A Brazzaville press briefing has put the 2015 Constitution of the Republic of Congo back on the table.

A late-night call from the State Department The deteriorating relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea has now drawn the direct attention of American diplomacy.

The first round of talks aimed at ending the strike at Marien Ngouabi University closed in Brazzaville on 15 October without a compromise.

Brazzaville’s public prosecutor, André Oko Gakala, inspected territorial gendarmerie brigades on Wednesday 14 October and, by his own assessment, found detention conditions acceptable and the statutory limits on police custody respected.

A new ministry built around political dialogue Pierre Oba, Minister of State and Minister at the Presidency in charge of Political Affairs, paid a courtesy visit on 13 October to the headquarters of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (Upads), the…

The Republic of Congo’s money transfer regulator is preparing to move the sector from paper declarations to live electronic oversight.

Congo-Brazzaville’s Council of Ministers met for a little over four hours on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, at the Palais du Peuple, under the chairmanship of President Denis Sassou N’Guesso.

Congo’s National Cancer Control Programme has opened a three-month drive to bring prevention and early detection closer to the population, as official figures point to a steady rise in cases and a death toll that health authorities attribute largely to la…

Abiy Ahmed has opened his third term as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister with a familiar triad of promises: national unity, infrastructure and economic transformation.

A Joint Commission Breaks a Long Silence On 6 October in Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo and Mozambique closed the first session of their grand joint commission for cooperation with eleven legal instruments approved.

The protest that took shape among lawyers in Pointe-Noire at the end of September has now reached the capital.

Brazzaville Presses for Security Council Reform at UNGA81 Speaking from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly at its 81st session, in late September, the Republic of Congo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Constant-Serge Bounda, set out the dipl…

The new head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, Mohamed El-Amine Souef, spent two days in Brazzaville at the start of a contact mission across the eleven ECCAS member states.

The Congolese diplomatic community in France gathered at Pierrefitte-sur-Seine on 1 October to honour Jean-Bruno Thiam, a veteran of the presidential press under Marien Ngouabi whose career spanned journalism, communication and diplomacy, and whose life e…

The National Institute of Statistics of the Republic of the Congo wants to bring informal cross-border trade into the official accounts.

An audience with an economic agenda in Libreville On Friday 2 October 2026, President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema received Stefano Moscatelli, Italy’s ambassador to Gabon, for talks on how cooperation between Libreville and Rome might be strengthened.

Guinea-Bissau’s military rulers say the security conditions for Umaro Sissoco Embalo’s return are not in place.

A Health Ministry Tenure Measured in Hours On Thursday morning, Dr.

Algeria’s lawmakers have voted to make the deliberate burning of forests and fields a capital offence, a sharp turn for a country that has carried out no execution since 1993, adopted in the aftermath of a summer of lethal wildfires whose true human cost…

Egypt’s interior ministry says it has arrested six staff members of Matsadaash, an independent fact-checking platform it describes as “unlicensed”.

The new delegate director of the Institut français du Congo in Pointe-Noire, Christophe Di Pompeo, wants the institution to reach residents in the city’s neighbourhoods.

Fred Makita is free.

Brazzaville families face higher school-run costs For families in Brazzaville, the eve of the new school year has brought an unwelcome addition to an already long list of expenses.

Gabon has chosen a less glamorous yardstick for its economic ambitions: the quality of its public finances.

Over three days of meetings in Pointe-Noire, the governing bodies of the Rally for Democracy and Social Progress (RDPS) adopted the agenda of the party’s fourth ordinary congress, reaffirmed their backing for President Denis Sassou N’Guesso and renewed th…

Brazzaville was, for one week in late September, the setting for an exercise in explaining what a forest label actually certifies.

A Libreville criminal court has fined Gabonese MP Augustin Lobelle Yembi 500,000 CFA francs, downgrading the charge arising from his September altercation at Kigali airport to a petty offence of light violence and dismissing a defence plea of nullity.

Youth minister Prince Michrist Kaba-Mboko has opened in Pointe-Noire and Loango the Republic of Congo’s first national campaign on civic behaviour, responsible citizenship and peace.

An International Monetary Fund team is in Brazzaville from 24 September to 7 October 2026 to open talks on a successor to the Extended Credit Facility, at a time when the country’s public debt stood at 97.2% of GDP at the end of 2025.

Seven people are due before the high court at Ewo on 28 September over an alleged trade in panther skins, a skull and teeth.

Congo’s urban sanitation minister received the Albayrak group and the mayor of Nevers on the same September day.