Lates News from Congo-Brazzaville
Author: David Mukendi
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.
Prime Minister Makosso inaugurated the Franprix supermarket at Brazza Mall in Mpila, Brazzaville’s 45-billion-FCFA shopping centre, vowing to back local producers.
The IMF urged Congo-Brazzaville to diversify, cut spending and tame its debt as Finance Minister Yoka forecast 5% growth by 2026. Here is the roadmap.
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.
At OSIANE’s 10th edition in Kintélé, Congo-Brazzaville sets a five-year goal to become Central Africa’s digital capital. Inside the vision.
Congo-Brazzaville is reviving its national price index, abandoned for decades, to fight speculation, fix fair prices and modernise its trade rules.
Congo-Brazzaville signs a BADEA deal funding the Corniche Sud (47 billion FCFA) and a new downtown government city, sealed on the sidelines of the AfDB meetings.
AGL Congo has delivered 270 light vehicles to expand and modernise urban transport in Pointe-Noire, promising safer, more reliable and more accessible daily travel.
Congo-Brazzaville now requires firms to hire local workers first, allowing foreign recruits only when no equivalent Congolese skills exist.
Congo-Brazzaville and the BADEA signed two deals worth $500 million to extend the Corniche road and boost the country’s stake in Africa’s Solidarity Fund.