Republic of the Congo

The director general of the Société nouvelle des ciments du Congo announced that Sonocc will resume production from today, amid a progressive increase in the price of a bag of cement in recent months

The Lisungi project has supported 147.389 poor Congolese families through cash transfers; in addition, 5.000 young people in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire have been selected to acquire new skills for employability

Averda, international company managing local waste collection, has mobilized vehicles and agents to cope with overloaded bins in Brazzaville and Point Noire during the festive season

The village of Kapou has developed a large production of palm wine, generating local business and developing a strong trade

The sixth edition of the Bilili BD festival ends today; started on 30 November around the theme of "Expansion", the meeting brought together local and international artists from the world of comics

Activities of the 4-year project to revitalize the agricultural sector started; it is an instrument through which, when the country repays a debt, it receives a matched amount from AFD as a grant for a development or poverty reduction programme

Thousands of passports are now available in authorized services and citizens can fetch them, as the State's debt to the German company in charge of producing the passports has been definitively settled

The president of Action of Christians for the Abolition of Torture in Congo (Acat-Congo) has sounded the alarm about abusive pre-trial detentions; in the country, there are more pre-trial detainees in prisons than people serving sentences after trial

290 million CFA francs have been distributed to more than 4000 needy families in three districts in a project of the French Development Agency; the amounts allocated to each family are calculated according to the number of children

The Kiminou association "Icole pour tous" has decided to support a couple who have already given birth to triplets four times over in the village of Mpila by donating school kits to the twelve children

The Archdiocese of Brazzaville has launched a digital management platform for schools; the software aims at developing a networked and digitalized management of educational systems and programs in the general and technical schools

The Government has signed a partnership with private sector companies for the development of the state land reserve in Léfini, in the Plateaux department