Congo-Brazzaville

Congo-Brazzaville’s mines minister Pierre Oba suspended all new mining title grants for gold, cassiterite, and coltan effective April 1, 2026, aiming to overhaul oversight of the artisanal mining sector.

Denis Sassou N’Guesso was inaugurated for a new five-year term on April 16, 2026, at Brazzaville’s 60,000-seat Kintélé stadium, with foreign heads of state in attendance.

The 11th ordinary session of Congo-Brazzaville’s National Assembly passed six legislative items including a sweeping new mining code and a landmark law recognizing the transatlantic slave trade.

US Chargé d’Affaires Amanda Jacobsen visited two Pool department schools to evaluate America’s school meals program, which has invested over $100 million since 2001 and feeds 83,000 Congolese children daily.

Congo-Brazzaville’s National Assembly adopts a memorial law recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and offering Afro-descendants a path to citizenship.

Congo’s National Assembly adopted the revised Mining Code on April 8, 2026, a long-awaited overhaul of the law governing the country’s extractive sector.

In Pointe-Noire, public and private actors adopted a declaration reframing plastic waste as the “R product,” a strategic resource to create jobs and spur green industry.

From late February to early April 2026, Brazzaville’s youth, graduates included, lean on informal work, hoping the 2026-2031 mandate brings genuine jobs.

Parasitologist Francine Ntoumi told Congo’s National Assembly that investing in research today is how the country protects its citizens and health tomorrow.