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...

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...

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...

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)...