Denis Sassou-Nguesso

The leading challengers to Sassou-Nguesso Ange-Edouard Poungui: 65; central bank chief measured technocrat; Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s Premier in the ‘Marxist’ 1980s; candidate of Pascal Lissouba’s Union Panafricaine pour la Démocratie Sociale and small opposition parties in the Alliance pour une Nouvelle République...

On 5 May a senior French investigating magistrate Françoise Desset decided (after its third rejection) that a case backed by anti-corruption organisations against Bongo Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo could proceed...

The decision may force the reopening of a 2007 police investigation into the assets of Presidents Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea)and Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Congo-Brazzaville) that was abruptly shut down...

Three days earlier Mwinda had published an interview with Toungamani who accused President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of corruption...

As daughter of Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Edith provided a vital regional link...

Sarkozy's trip to Brazzaville where President Denis Sassou-Nguesso faces accusations of grand corruption and extra-judicial killings will be made more difficult by a wave of documents detailing links between his regime and senior French officials...

Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for theft of public funds...

CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Return of the exiles The all-powerful President Denis Sassou-Nguesso will notch up an easy victory in the presidential poll scheduled for July...

It was managed by Lo Fong Hung Veronica Fung and allies of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Denis Gokana and Blaise Elenga...

Western governments will pressure offshore financial centres to yield more information on the opaque arrangements that facilitate capital flight and tax evasion so more African wealth is likely to follow the cash of political heavyweights like Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso son of Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso...