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Congo-Brazzaville

Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Date of Birth: 23 November 1943
Place of Birth: Edou, Oyo District


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Gertler's end

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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Macron's relaunch

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...


Son, like Father

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...


Cancelling the opposition

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)...


The bank at the heart of the scandal

BGFI was a creation of two presidents: Omar Bongo of Gabon – who died in 2009 his son Ali Ben Bongo taking his place – and Denis Sassou-Nguesso of neighbouring Congo-B...

There Denis Sassou-Nguesso seized power in 1979 and has stayed in charge apart from a 1992-97 interregnum and civil war...

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Show us the money

These include Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta and Gabon's Ali Ben Bongo...


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