Author: David Mukendi

Congo’s transport minister opened permanent talks with sector unions in Brazzaville as CFCO rail workers report 44 months of unpaid salaries.

Brazzaville hosts the 6th Real Estate Fair from 6-8 October 2026, spotlighting sustainable urban growth, land tensions, housing prices and diaspora investment.

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%.

Congo-Brazzaville lifts its 2026 budget by 227.5 billion FCFA to 2,778 billion, driven by crude at $67 a barrel amid Middle East tensions.

Airtel Congo has appointed Abdelkader Babakodo as its new CEO, promoting the former commercial director to steer the operator’s growth and digital push.

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.

On 26-27 June, Brazzaville hosts FITE Congo 2026, a forum on the digital economy that puts women and young Africans at the heart of innovation.

Brazzaville factories Ragec and Induco run at only 50% capacity over electricity shortages, Minister Michel Djombo finds during plant visits in 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.