Author: Stephen Mbayo

Eye Health Gap in Congo Across the Republic of Congo, the cost of an ordinary eye test can swallow a week’s salary for a bus conductor,…

A packed house at Teatro Teresa Carreño The red-brick hall in central Caracas was filled well before sunrise. According to Venezuela’s public broadcaster and the international…

Geographic crossroads at the Equator Tell a cartographer you are flying over Central Africa and they will likely point to Congo-Brazzaville as the place where the…

Brazzaville hospital crisis timeline For months the corridors of the Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Brazzaville, the country’s largest referral facility, echoed more with slogans than…

UN day sparks fresh political momentum in Brazzaville August 9 usually slips by quietly in the Congolese calendar, yet this year the International Day of Indigenous…

Fifteen Minutes that Reset the Hospital Mood Just after noon in a stifling meeting room, union representative Joël Bazoma needed only a quarter hour to read…

Ceremony under marble and protocol in Brazzaville A late-morning hush fell over the Palais du Peuple as President Denis Sassou Nguesso accepted three sets of credentials…

Government sets the table for national school meals In a packed meeting room at the Ministry of Education this week, World Food Programme country chief Gon…

Why Geography Still Shapes Policy Stretched along the snaking Congo River and opening onto 170 km of Atlantic coast, Congo-Brazzaville covers roughly the same surface as…

Government-led malaria push in Pool Early August sunlight had barely warmed the red earth of Kinkala before local officials started handing out rolls of blue mesh.…