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Denis Sassou Nguesso is a Congolese politician and former military officer who became president of the Republic of the Congo in 1997. He served a previous term as president from 1979 to 1992. During his first period as president, he headed the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) for 12 years. He introduced multiparty politics in 1990, but was stripped of executive powers by the 1991 National Conference, remaining in office as a ceremonial head of state. He stood as a candidate in the 1992 presidential election but placed third.
The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, also known as the Second Brazzaville-Congolese Civil War, was the second of two ethnopolitical civil conflicts in the Republic of the Congo which lasted from 5 June 1997 to 29 December 1999. The war served as the continuation of the civil war of 1993–1994 and involved militias representing three political candidates. The conflict ended following the intervention of the Angolan military, which reinstated former president Denis Sassou Nguesso to power.
The Republic of the Congo is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to the northwest by Cameroon, to the northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and to the southwest by the Atlantic Ocean.
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 12 July 2009. Long-time President Denis Sassou Nguesso won another seven-year term with a large majority of the vote, but the elections were marred by accusations of irregularities and fraud from the opposition; six opposition candidates chose to boycott the elections.
Pierre Mabiala is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of the Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Land Affairs since 2017. He serves in Anatole Collinet Makosso's government. Previously he was a Deputy in the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville from 2002 to 2007, a Senator from 2008 to 2009, Minister of Land Affairs from 2009 to 2016, and Minister of Justice from 2016 to 2017.
Anatole Collinet Makosso has served as the prime minister of the Republic of the Congo since 2021. He has also served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education from 2015 to 2021, and as the Minister of Youth and Civic Instruction from 2011 to 2016.
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 20 March 2016. It was the first election to be held under the new constitution that had been passed by referendum in 2015. President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who had exhausted the two-term limit imposed by the previous constitution, was allowed to run again due to the adoption of the new constitution. He won re-election in the first round of voting, receiving 60% of the vote.
Clément Mouamba was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 2016 until 2021.
The Pool War was a conflict between the Republic of the Congo and the Ninja militia in the Pool Department in the southeastern part of the country. Tensions grew between Frédéric Bintsamou and Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso, after Bintsamou contested modifications to the constitution. Bintsamou was formerly a collaborator of Sassou-Nguesso.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 16 July 2017, with a second round of voting following on 30 July in constituencies where no candidate secured a majority.
Events in the year 2020 in the Republic of the Congo.
Events in the year 2021 in the Republic of the Congo.
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 21 March 2021. Incumbent president Denis Sassou Nguesso was re-elected with 88% of the vote. His main opponent, Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas, died hours after polls closed.
Inès Nefer Bertille Ingani is a Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) politician in Congo-Brazzaville currently serving in Anatole Collinet Makosso's government. She is the Deputy for Moungali 2, Brazzaville Department. From April 2016 to September 2019 she was Women's Minister.
The Cabinet of the Republic of the Congo governs the nation.
Anatole Collinet Makosso's government has governed the Republic of the Congo since 15 May 2021.
Events in the year 2022 in the Republic of the Congo.
Events in the year 2023 in the Republic of the Congo.
Jean-Marc Thystère Tchicaya is a Congolese politician. He is the Minister of Special Economic Zones and Economic Diversification since September 2022. Before that, he was the Minister of Transports, Civil Aviation, and Merchant Navy (2021–2022), and the Minister of Hydrocarbons (2015–2021).
