Politics
In Paris, Foreign Minister Bounda met Congolese diaspora voices, including expert Deve Maboungou, on airfares, consular reform and expat voting rights.
Slam poet Princia Besty was raped and killed in Brazzaville after traveling from Pointe-Noire for her passport. Police open an investigation as tributes pour in.
President Denis Sassou N’Guesso opens a week-long working stay in Oyo to steer Congo-Brazzaville’s economy and launch the 2026-2031 Action Plan.
At Brazzaville’s Palais du Peuple, Congo’s first cabinet meeting of the 2026-2031 term backed a new deposits fund and a 143.8bn FCFA Congo Telecom boost.
Congo’s new Interior Minister Jean Olessongo Ondaye pledges faster passports, digital procedures, decentralised offices and zero tolerance for corruption.
Congo PM Anatole Collinet Makosso toured government ministries in Brazzaville, exposing damaged offices and unsanitary conditions ahead of a major renovation drive.
Brazzaville’s PALE flood-relief programme reaches 93% land clearance, with 754 households compensated as the AFD-backed project shifts toward social recovery.
President Denis Sassou N’Guesso travelled to Libreville on 3 May 2026 to inaugurate Gabon’s new congress hall named after Omar Bongo Ondimba.
Gustave Adicolle Goum becomes Congo-Brazzaville’s technical education minister, vowing to turn the sector into a job engine for the country’s youth.
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