Two weeks of fuel shortages in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire revive demands to break SNPC’s import monopoly and open Congo’s refined-fuel market.

On 26-27 June, Brazzaville hosts FITE Congo 2026, a forum on the digital economy that puts women and young Africans at the heart of innovation.

Brazzaville factories Ragec and Induco run at only 50% capacity over electricity shortages, Minister Michel Djombo finds during plant visits in Congo-Brazzaville.

Congo’s cabinet granted Dangote Fertilizer a permit to mine the Mengo potash deposit, a $3bn project promising 800 jobs and a new NPK fertilizer plant.

Congo-Brazzaville’s government and the Millers’ Federation met in Pointe-Noire to set a flour floor price and require a 10% cassava blend in bread flour.

Prime Minister Makosso inaugurated the Franprix supermarket at Brazza Mall in Mpila, Brazzaville’s 45-billion-FCFA shopping centre, vowing to back local producers.