Browsing: Brazzaville

Congo battles cholera as health officials and the WHO bring prevention to Talangai market. 1024 cases, 100 deaths recorded since July 2025.

Congo-Brazzaville’s Civil Security logged 28,725 operations in 2025, roughly 80 a day, as rescue calls multiplied more than 20-fold since 2017.

Brazzaville authorities forcibly evicted 420 families in Mpila to widen the Yoro port access road, citing public utility despite paid compensation.

Brazzaville evicted 420 families from Yoro in Mpila to widen access to a 1944-era port that feeds the capital. Residents who took compensation resisted to the end.

Doctors warn metabolic syndrome is a rising public-health threat in Brazzaville, driven by urban diets and inactivity. Here is what prevention could look like.

Minister Adicolle Goum opened the technical baccalaureate’s physical-education practicals on May 5, with 16,352 candidates tested across 68 centres in Congo-Brazzaville.

Congo PM Anatole Collinet Makosso toured government ministries in Brazzaville, exposing damaged offices and unsanitary conditions ahead of a major renovation drive.

Gustave Adicolle Goum becomes Congo-Brazzaville’s technical education minister, vowing to turn the sector into a job engine for the country’s youth.

Brazzaville’s PALE stormwater drainage project clears Phase 2 at 93%, a key step toward shielding the capital’s flood-prone neighbourhoods from seasonal rains.

In Brazzaville, 500 Congolese farmers trained in computer skills on 23-24 April 2026 to close the digital divide and modernise farming, markets and decision-making.