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Congo
Sassou hatches plan to neutralise Kolelas

Brazzaville is plotting to undermine the Pool political base of Parfait Kolelas, the head of the MCDDI party, before the presidential elections in 2016. [...]

Published on 01.04.2015 at 22:01 GMT

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Bernard Kolelas
Clement Mierassa
CNDH
Conseil National des Republicains
Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Dynamique Republicaine
Frederic Bitsamou
Hellot Matson Mampouya
Jean-Martin Mbemba
Joachim Yhombi-Opango
Mouvement Congolais pour la Democratie et le Developpement Integral
Parfait Kolelas
Parti Congolais du Travail
Pascal Tsaty-Mabiala
Pasteur Ntumi
PSDC
RDD
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Congo
Unrest in Pool region threatens Brazzaville’s economy

Repression by the head of state in the rebellious department is having a knock-on effect in the capital.

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Juste-Desire Mondele, Willy's man in the palace

On September 21, Societe Congolaise de Manutention des Bois (Socomab) CEO Juste-Desire Mondele, 45, was named Denis Sassou-Nguesso's special advisor [...]

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Pascal Tsaty Mabiala retained in Brazzaville

Congolese member of parliament Pascal Tsaty Mabiala, the 66-year-old leader of the Republic of Congo's opposition party UPADS (Union Panafricaine [...]

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Dominique Inchauspe takes on Sassou regime

Dominique Inchauspe, a Franco-American criminal lawyer who is a member of the Paris bar, will be the leading defence lawyer [...]

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Sassou’s will tested by opposition

The opposition in Brazzaville has rarely been this united, a state of affairs that could affect President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s resolve to change the constitution.

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Congo
Sassou has courts under his thumb

After strengthening his close security and taking tighter control of sectors such as oil, Denis Sassou Nguesso has been busy working to reign in the Republic of Congo’s courts.

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Congo
Paul-Marie Mpouele rallies opposition against Sassou Nguesso

Paul-Marie Mpoulele, the president of the new Front Republicain pour le Respect de l’Ordre Constitutionnel et pour l’Alternance Democratique (FROCAD), [...]

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Lobbyists circle round Denis Sassou Nguesso

Christophe de Margerie, the Total chief who died in a plane crash in October last year, was one of the rare captains of industry who did not need intermediaries to gain access to Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso.

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Post-Sassou in play in Brazzaville’s corridors of power

Even though they are apparently fully behind President Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s plan to amend the constitution so that he can run for office again in 2016, the Congolese leader’s close guard are in fact keeping their options open, as West Africa [.

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Sassou negotiates way to 2016 elections

With the next presidential elections in the Republic of Congo less than two years away, it seems that nothing can stop Denis Sassou-Nguesso, 71, from running for another term, even though the constitution that he himself approved forbids it.

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Congo
Sassou reins in the North

Concerned about opposition from within his regime, President Sassou Nguesso is cracking down on any hint of dissention in his own support base.

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