Tag: Congo Brazzaville
Alain Mabanckou, life in the kingdom of the dead
Born in Pointe-Noire in Congo-Brazzaville, Alain Mabanckou teaches today in the United States. Translator, editor, writer, documentary filmmaker, he is the author of numerous essays and novels including porcupine memory…
Literature: Alain Mabanckou and “The business of reclining”
At the time of the literary season when 490 new French and foreign novels appear, today’s cultural guest is the writer Alain Mabanckou, who has just published The elongated trade,…
the results of the legislative elections endorsed by the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court, judge of electoral disputes, rejected on Sunday August 15 the 30 appeals for annulment of the legislative elections of July 10 and 31. These decisions being irrevocable,…
mushroom cultivation as an integration tool for disadvantaged people
The Challenge Futura Foundation, headed by the Congolese inventor Tsengué-Tsengué, with other public and private partners, has just completed a pilot project to train the physically handicapped and the hearing…
a gasoline shortage slows economic activities in Brazzaville
Brazzaville has been affected for almost two weeks by a shortage of petrol which is disrupting economic activities. Taxi drivers and other motorists are fed up. This shortage is due…
the Congolese Labor Party wins the legislative elections with 111 deputies
The presidential party had already won 102 parliamentary seats in the first round of legislative elections on July 10. In the second round last Sunday, the PCT won nine more,…
advance vote of the police force for the second round of the legislative
The defense and security forces voted early on Tuesday for the second round of the legislative elections on July 31. No incidents were reported by the Electoral Commission. This vote…
Dieudonné Niangouna in a word, a gesture and a silence
Dieudonné Niangouna, 46, born in Brazzaville, was in 2007 the first author and director from sub-Saharan Africa invited to the Festival IN d’Avignon. In 2013, he was the first artist…
the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov expected in the stronghold of President Sassou
The Minister of Foreign Affairs is expected Sunday evening in Oyo, stronghold of the Congolese head of state Denis Sassou Nguesso, 400 kilometers north of Brazzaville, for a two-day visit.…
Congo-B wants to raise the retirement age to 65, the population is divided
The government of Congo-Brazzaville approved, during its last council of ministers last week, its bill raising the retirement age from 60 to 65 for civil servants. But the measure is…