The FAA is better armed and trained than ever even if it did encounter surprising problems when helping Denis Sassou Nguesso's Cobra militias in Congo- Brazzaville...
Ex-President André Kolingba wants power again and is encouraged by the examples of Mathieu Kérékou in Benin Didier Ratsiraka in Madagascar and Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo Brazzaville...
Vol 38 No 24 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
She wanted no interference in internal affairs or discussion of the presence of Presidents Hun Sen and Denis Sassou Nguesso of Cambodia and Congo-Brazzaville both in power after recent army coups...
Denis Sassou Nguesso to consolidate...
Denis Sassou-Nguesso is once more the ruler of Congo-Brazzaville by force of arms...
Between the invitations and the due date on 6 and 7 November Denis Sassou-Nguesso's cobra militiamen had passed through Libreville on their way to Congo-Brazzaville and Pascal Lissouba's soldiers had threatened Gabon with revenge...
Fresh from his military defeat of the elected President Pascal Lissouba on 15 October General Denis Sassou Nguesso told Africa Confidential that he would follow a policy of ouverture and national reconciliation...
And Bongo's father-in-law Denis Sassou Nguesso with whom Lissouba is at war might not be too pleased...
In the final months of Pascal Lissouba's presidential term which officially ended on 31 August over 6 000 people have died in the war between his supporters and those of ex-dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso...