Browsing: Pointe-Noire

At the 4th Vox Eco forum, operators mapped out how a €400 million expansion, rail fixes and faster corridors could lift Pointe-Noire’s port competitiveness.

BSCA unveiled a mobile banking van in Pointe-Noire on 2 July 2026 to reach unbanked communities in a country where banking access stays below 30%.

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.

In Pointe-Noire, the Women’s Advisory Council promotes the Social Pact, urging solidarity, civic duty and women’s role in Congo’s national development.

Two weeks of fuel shortages in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire revive demands to break SNPC’s import monopoly and open Congo’s refined-fuel market.

France confirms continued funding for water supply and drainage works in Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville, including Tsiemé river channelling to curb floods.

President Denis Sassou N’Guesso urged ministers to speed up Pointe-Noire roads, the high-voltage line, Loango University and the Maloukou industrial zone.

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.

Colonel-Major Aimé Fred Auvrey Nianga is installed as commander of Defense Zone 1 in Pointe-Noire, succeeding General Jean Ollessongo Ondaye.

MBTP and AD Ports Group will build Pointe-Noire’s new Noatum container terminal, a $150M project with a 420-metre quay set to create up to 9,000 jobs.