Congo
Sassou chief of staff Florent Ntsiba at heart of power struggle

Congo
Paris job agency seeks to lure expat execs back home

The minister responsible for skills training and employment, Hugues Ngouélondélé, is due in Paris to open a new liaison office created in partnership with Congo's employment agency.

Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Faure Gnassingbé, Alassane Ouattara

Intrigues big and small... Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

DRC Tshisekedi's mysteriously large salary

Congo Sassou keeps his memoirs to himself a while longer

France/Togo General Germanos' death leaves hole in team

Ivory Coast Cocody Bay's foul smells get under Ouattara's nose

Congo
Sassou deftly pairs inner circle with cabinet members

The president's cabinet reshuffle has done little to rock the boat of his prime minister Anatole Collinet Makosso or of his own entourage. Only his finance minister, Rigobert Foger Andely, has had to say goodbye.

Congo
Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso loses ground in Brazzaville

Despite considerable self-promotion efforts, the international cooperation minister is struggling to find his place within a government where he has managed to irk several ministers. His public-private partnership law has just been rejected by his father, the Congolese president, who keeps him at a safe distance from presidential affairs.

Congo
Sons and daughters of regime bigwigs line up for legislative elections

The children of President Denis Sassou Nguesso are among a bevy of candidates in this month's legislative and local elections who are the offspring of the Congolese political elite.