The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brazzaville is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.
Anatole Milandou is the current archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.
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.
Clément Mouamba was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 2016 until 2021.
Makosso is a Congolese surname that may refer to:
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.
Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo is a Congolese politician, Minister of Health and Population since May 6, 2016. She was previously Public Procurement and Regulatory Coordinator at the Department of Major Works (2014-2016).
Events in the year 2020 in the Republic of the Congo.
King Makosso IV was the 17th King of Loango. He was crowned on 29 August 2009 in the Kouilou Department in the Republic of the Congo. He worked in Pointe-Noire as a mechanic, and was chosen to be the King of Loango because he was the nephew of King Poaty III.
Events in the year 2021 in the Republic of the Congo.
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.
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).
On 21 November, 2023, a crowd crush in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, occurred on the final day of a military recruitment drive in the Michel d'Ornano Stadium, causing at least 32 deaths and 144 injuries.
Events in the year 2024 in the Republic of the Congo.
