Author: Stephen Mbayo

UNESCO election stakes Inside UNESCO’s glass-fronted headquarters on Paris’s Avenue de Suffren, diplomats are warming up for an election that rarely excites newspaper vendors yet defines…

Brazzaville Workshop Lights New Path From the hill-lined avenues of Brazzaville to the rainforest villages of Sangha, a quiet but consequential pledge is taking shape: Congolese…

Refugees and the rising Unified Social Registry When Congo-Brazzaville’s Ministry of Social Affairs convened partners in Brazzaville last week, the buzzword was inclusion. Over two brisk…

Kick-off Echoes Between Sirens and Cheers Ordinary traffic around Brazzaville’s Ornano stadium paused on 6 August as blue police sirens blended with football chants. A joint…

Latest figures and what they mean The Ministry of Health’s Situation Report N°7, circulated on 9 August 2025, lists 2 148 suspected cholera cases since the…

Fresh case figures paint a cautious picture The sixth situation report released by the World Health Organization and the Congolese Ministry of Health on 7 August…

Electoral timetable locked in by Interior Ministry An August 7 decree from the Ministry of the Interior puts firm dates on the road to the next…

Bright start for Makosso and Luton Town promotion bid Relegation stings, yet Luton’s dressing room already looks past the disappointment of May. Saturday’s 2-0 win on…

Likouala civil service wake-up call A flag-raising on the dusty forecourt of the Impfondo prefecture does not usually make headlines. Yet Monday’s ceremony carried extra weight…

A Home-Grown Idea Hits the Table On a breezy Saturday morning in August, journalists squeezed into a modest conference room near the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire.…