Browsing: 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’s June 18 cabinet awarded Dangote a $3bn potash permit and unveiled visa-free entry for Africans from January 2027. Here is what it means.

Days before Congo-Brazzaville’s BEPC 2026 written exams on 23 June, jury members trained on digital governance and anti-fraud measures at Marien Ngouabi University.

Sports Minister Hugues Ngouelôndelé welcomes Congo’s U18 and U20 handball squads after their Zone 4 runner-up finish, pledging funds before September’s continental cups.

Brazzaville charters three special flights June 22-24 to bring home Congolese nationals after a surge of xenophobic attacks across South Africa.

Claude Le Roy returns as head coach of Congo-Brazzaville’s Red Devils, eleven years after the 2015 AFCON run, amid a national push to revive football.

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.

Fuel pumps stay dry in Brazzaville as drivers besiege stations and official silence deepens frustration in an oil-rich yet struggling Congolese capital.

Over 149,329 pupils sat Congo-Brazzaville’s CEPE on 12 June 2026, up 7.71%. The exam may soon be renamed CEP under a planned education reform.

Congolese authorities burned 15 tonnes of cigarettes deemed unfit for consumption on June 14, 2026, in a move to safeguard public health and enforce product standards.