The Department of Justice has asked a judge for permission to seize an apartment at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York City as part of a corruption probe into the president of Congo, ...

Sassou Nguesso has accumulated 36 years in office -- he was most recently re-elected in 2016, after which the opposition was effectively sidelined and his two main rivals sentenced to 20 years' forced ...

The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in ...

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - At least four people demonstrating against plans to lift presidential term limits in Congo Republic were killed when police opened fire when the crowd refused to disperse, ...

Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His landslide first-round victory, announced by the interior minister ...

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Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected as the president of Republic of Congo in an election the opposition claim was marred by fraud. Congolese Interior Minister Raymond Zephyrin Mboulou said that ...

Opposition strongholds in Brazzaville were closed on Tuesday (29 March) following a strike call over the re-election of Congo's veteran ruler Denis Sassou Nguesso in polls his rivals say were marred ...

Will the 10th summit of the African Union (AU) High-Level Committee on Libya be its last? The current AU chairperson, President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani (Mauritania); AU Commission chairperson ...

Nicknamed the “Emperor” by some peers, Congo’s veteran President Denis Sassou Nguesso on Tuesday won another five-year term that will see him steering his country for over four decades. A former ...

Four people were killed in the Republic of Congo on Tuesday as protesters challenged a referendum scheduled for Sunday designed to allow President Denis Sassou Nguesso to extend his rule by removing ...

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