Brazzaville’s residents live to the rhythm of natural disasters but the state does little to help
For several years, the Republic of the Congo has been quietly buying an arsenal from Azerbaijan, with the latest cache arriving before next month’s election
Congo’s army has widened a safety zone around the site of the weekend arms dump explosions that killed nearly 200 people.
Fears of more unexploded munitions at a Congo arms depot where a series of blasts killed nearly 200 people have delayed the search for more wounded.
The number of victims from the Congo armoury blast continues to rise as morgues run out of space and are forced to stack bodies two each onto a tray.
Congo wants to amend the terms of a multi-million hectare land deal with South African farmers, a top aide said on Wednesday.
An Air France plane hit a building just after landing in Brazzaville and was banned from taking off with any passengers, an official said on Thursday.
At least four mortar shells pounded a northern working-class district of the Congo capital Brazzaville overnight, causing heavy damage.
Sitting at a small clinic in the Talangai area, north of Congo’s capital, Brazzaville, Elise Diamba holds the hands of her malnourished two-year old grandson. "Gérard’s mother…
The Republic of Congo heads into a second round of voting on Sunday, but many there are wary of electoral chaos and the fact that their lives aren’t improving much, despite their…
The first round of Congo’s legislative elections was marked by chaos on Sunday, with long delays, protesters crying foul and about 40 smaller opposition parties boycotting the…
President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s ruling party is expected to be the big winner of legislative elections on Sunday in Congo, where opposition complaints have had little impact.…
The remains of one of the few white colonists still held in regard in Africa were reinterred on Tuesday in a glass and marble mausoleum in the city named after him, Brazzaville.…
A Congolese court on Wednesday acquitted all 15 defendants in the trial over the 1999 murder of about 350 refugees in Brazzaville after finding them not guilty of genocide,…
The trial opens in Brazzaville on Tuesday of 16 people accused of slaughtering dozens of President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s opponents in the explosive case of the ”beach missing”.…
Another person died of Ebola in the north-western Congo, raising the number of victims to 10, health officials announced on Friday. The latest victim died on Thursday in Etoumbi…
Authorities in the Congo have quarantined two north-western districts hit by the deadly Ebola virus to ensure the highly contagious disease does not spread, officials said on…
The Congo’s top health official said on Monday he fears an outbreak of a rare haemorrhagic fever could spread from neighbouring Angola despite efforts to curtail cross-border…
Leaders from Africa’s Congo Basin gather in Brazzaville with international officials on Saturday for a conference on the threats facing the region’s vast forest expanses, one of…
Human-rights groups on Friday urged the Congo’s government to ratify an international treaty that would protect the rights of pygmies, many of whom live in virtual slavery in the…
