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Congo
Sassou Nguesso aims for presidential first-round knockout

A handful of close allies have been tasked with talking up Denis Sassou Nguesso’s performance as president ahead of the country’s elections on March 20. [...]

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Arlette Soudan-Nonault
Chantal Maryse Itoua Apoyolo
Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso
Firmin Ayessa
Francois Soudan
Jean-Baptiste Farran
Jean-Jacques Bouya
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Nestor Makosso crosses swords with Arlette Soudan-Nonault

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Sassou’s slimmer cabinet

Keeping Firmin Ayessa as its director, Denis Sassou-Nguesso on September [...]

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Sassou Nguesso serves up more of same in new government

Denis Sassou Nguesso’s appointment of a prime minister from the opposition, 72-year-old Clement Mouamba, on April 30, only pays lip service to greater openness in the Congolese government.

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Promotion for Calixte Nganongo, the man who holds all the oil secrets

Named on April 30 by President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Congo-B's new government won't loosen the presidential family's grip on the oil [...]

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Zephirin Mboulou secures Sassou’s victory

The Republic of Congo’s interior and decentralisation minister since 2007, Raymond Zephirin Mboulou, 60, controlled every aspect of the presidential [...]

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Equajet signs deal with Anguios Engambe

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso was not the only person who had [...]

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Congo
Sassou family join in electoral campaign

President Denis Sassou Nguesso has got an army of sons, daughters, nephews, nieces and grandchildren involved in his campaign to remain in office.

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Congo
Viala, Prevost burst onto Congolese “Ill-Gotten Gains” scene

French lawyer Jean-Marie Viala caused a surprise in Franco-Congolese legal [...]

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Sassou aims for reelection, by hook or by crook

Barring a most unlikely upset, Congolese leader Denis Sassou-Nguesso is expected to sail through the country’s presidential elections next month having done everything possible to ensure that the poll can only have one outcome - not least changing the constitution [.

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Congo
Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko has a plan

General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, a.k.a. "JMMM", African Union commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma’s special representative in Central African Republic, has [...]

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Congo
Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso campaigns for his father

President Denis Sassou Nguesso is counting heavily on his son Denis-Christel to go to the Congolese people and explain why he should remain in power.

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Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso
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Francois Soudan
Jean-Baptiste Farran
Jean-Jacques Bouya
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Thierry Lezin Moungalla

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Sassou’s slimmer cabinet

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Promotion for Calixte Nganongo, the man who holds all the oil secrets

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Zephirin Mboulou secures Sassou’s victory

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Equajet signs deal with Anguios Engambe

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Sassou family join in electoral campaign

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