Author: Stephen Mbayo

President Sassou N’Guesso welcomed Togo’s Faure Gnassingbe to Oyo for high-level talks on security, African integration and South-South development partnerships.

Residents of Congo’s Bouenza region voiced public support for President Denis Sassou N’Guesso’s re-election, a Vox Congo report aired on 10 May 2026 shows.

President Sassou N’Guesso names digital transformation of Congo’s administrations a national priority, alongside rail, road, water and power upgrades.

Minister Adicolle Goum opened the technical baccalaureate’s physical-education practicals on May 5, with 16,352 candidates tested across 68 centres in Congo-Brazzaville.

Congo’s new interior minister, General Jean Olessongo Ondaye, pledges to end passport bribery and restore the official 50,000 FCFA price for citizens.

Congo’s first cabinet of the new term targets digital reform, the Congo-Ocean railway, roads, power and water as Sassou N’Guesso pushes acceleration.

At Brazzaville’s Palais du Peuple, Congo’s first cabinet meeting of the 2026-2031 term backed a new deposits fund and a 143.8bn FCFA Congo Telecom boost.

Congo’s new Interior Minister Jean Olessongo Ondaye pledges faster passports, digital procedures, decentralised offices and zero tolerance for corruption.

Congo PM Anatole Collinet Makosso toured government ministries in Brazzaville, exposing damaged offices and unsanitary conditions ahead of a major renovation drive.

Brazzaville’s PALE flood-relief programme reaches 93% land clearance, with 754 households compensated as the AFD-backed project shifts toward social recovery.