Republic of the Congo

About five years after its introduction in Congo, the martial art hapkido is attracting many teenage girls who train at a center in the city of Pointe-Noire to learn how to defend themselves

The Turkish ambassador to Congo spoke in Brazzaville with the chairman of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Congolese Abroad about the abolition of visas between the two countries

The Catholic University of Congo-Brazzaville welcomed its first students after academic year activities began, initially scheduled for October 2023

All political groups -majority, opposition and center - as well as civil society, have been invited to attend a meeting to reflect on the use of biometrics in the electoral process by the Minister of the Interior, Decentralization, and Local Development

The ambitious Kinshasa-Brazzaville road-rail bridge project, which will connect the two closest capitals in the world, will have a 1.575-metre-long toll bridge over the Congo River, with a railway and a two-lane road and pedestrian crossing

Closing the proceedings of the 7th government seminar, Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso urged ministers to take action so that 2024 would truly be the year of youth, especially noting that 2026, the end of the term of office, is approaching

The Bretton Woods Institution has made CFAF 36,4 billion (US$60 million) available to the Republic of Congo to strengthen the performance of the Statistical Capacity Building Project

An eternal Libya in peace is the wish expressed by the President of the Republic of Congo, chairman of the African Union High Level Committee on Libya, at the opening of the meeting in Kintélé

The Conference of the Presidents of the two Houses of Parliament met in Brazzaville with 12 items for Senate and 11 for National Assembly, including bills for the creation of public bodies like the African Artificial Intelligence Research Centre

The Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing the worst flooding since 1961, caused by heavy seasonal rains reinforced by the effects of the climate emergency, with hundreds of casualties and millions of dollars' worth of damage

A project to build a power plant in Pointe-Noire was discussed between the Minister of Hydrocarbons and the President and CEO of the Chinese group Yunnan Linkun Investment, which intends to finance it

State budget for 2024 will include a sum of 2,5 billion CFA francs (over €3.700.000) to treat erosion, Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso announced

The Caravan of Books and Theatre, an initiative of the Les Minangas association, which aims at bringing books closer to the general public, travelled through the city of Mouyondzi, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Books