Congo’s Constitutional Court launches observer training in Brazzaville to safeguard the March 15 presidential vote, citing its constitutional duty to ensure fairness.

Academic Vivien Romain Manangou makes his first run for Congo-Brazzaville’s presidency, vowing cleaner public finances and less poverty against incumbent Sassou N’Guesso.

Congo-Brazzaville’s CENI trained officials for 6,541 polling stations in Brazzaville ahead of the March 12 and 15 presidential election. Here is what changes on voting day.

At 82, Congo-Brazzaville’s Denis Sassou-Nguesso campaigns for a last five-year term as the opposition points to poverty and jailed rivals.

At a Dolisie campaign rally, Denis Sassou N’Guesso met Unicongo employers pressing for local content, fair public contracts and national champions.

Incumbent Denis Sassou N’Guesso held mass rallies in Dolisie, Madingou and Sibiti days after Congo’s campaign opened, vowing farm mechanisation and railway upgrades.