Prime Minister Makosso inaugurated the Franprix supermarket at Brazza Mall in Mpila, Brazzaville’s 45-billion-FCFA shopping centre, vowing to back local producers.
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.
Fourteen years after the Mpila depot blasts displaced 130,000 families, Brazzaville pauses each March 4 to remember, even as presidential campaigning fills the streets.
