Vol 65 No 20 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The current book he says fulfils his promise to the man who used to call him ‘fiston' (‘son') though it also details the contributions presidents Laurent Gbagbo Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Blaise Compaoré also made to the Elysée...
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Vol 65 No 18 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Many leaders decline to pick sides in that war but others such as Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso extol Moscow's role in Africa: ‘African people have experienced a period of growth and gained power in their fight against colonialism and for liberation...
Ben-Menashe's African clients include the military junta in Burkina Faso Sudan's General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti and Congo-Brazzaville's president Denis Sassou-Nguesso...
President Emmanuel Macron was also very warm to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso at the Financing Pact Summit...
DISPATCHES
Vol 64 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Gertler has sought to rebuild his reputation with the help of Israeli political fixer Aron Shaviv who has a reputation as a spin doctor for leaders that other lobby shops balk at working for including Congo-Brazzaville's president Denis Sassou-Nguesso (AC Vol 58 No 10 Spinning Africa in Europe)...
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Vol 64 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
But in Brazzaville – under Denis Sassou-Nguesso's authoritarian sway for all but five of the past 43 years – it will be harder to escape echoes of old françafrique complicity while Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi is sure to push for more assertive French condemnation of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels threatening Goma...
Vol 63 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Beya's associates have been waiting to see if his old friend Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso would try to save him...
Denis Christel took up his first ministerial post when his father President Denis Sassou-Nguesso appointed him to run the newly created ministry of international cooperation and public-private partnerships...
The use of political show trials to exclude her and Aïvo from public life is reminiscent of the 20-year jail term imposed on former army general Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko in Congo-Brazzaville after he stood against Denis Sassou-Nguesso (AC Dispatches 22/3/21 Death of opposition leader Kolélas overshadows Sassou's latest coronation)...