In late 1987 he faced down a serious military revolt in the north of the country with French aid.At the PCT’s Fourth Ordinary Congress on 26–31 July 1989, Sassou Nguesso was re-elected as President of the PCT Central Committee and President of the Republic. When Ngouabi was assassinated in March 1977, Nguesso played a key role in maintaining control, briefly heading the Military Committee of the Party (CMP, As the newly elected president, Sassou Nguesso negotiated loans from the International Monetary Fund and allowed foreign investors from France and the Americas to operate in the vital oil and mineral extraction operations. Dans cette affaire, je ne me hasarde pas à choisir un camp et c’est trop de facilité d’invoquer une quelconque ingérence extérieure.
However, it is possible… He was Chairman of the Organization of African Unity from 1986 to 1987. Appuyés par des troupes angolaises, les Cobras prennent finalement la capitale.Lissouba s'exile et s'installe à Londres, puis en 2004 à Paris, après avoir longtemps accusé la France et la compagnie pétrolière Elf d'avoir aidé le président Sassou Nguesso à le chasser du pouvoir.Il y a quelques mois à peine, un autre ancien dirigeant congolais, Jacques Joachim Yhombi-Opango, qui a dirigé le Congo-Brazzaville entre 1977 et 1979, décédait lui aussi en France des suites du Covid-19 à l'âge de 81 ans. J’ai aussi toutes les raisons de penser que beaucoup de mes ex-employés ont disparu au cours de la guerre civile de 97 puis des liquidations qui ont suivi.
See instructions We use cookies to personalise ads and to analyse our traffic. Sassou Nguesso also made an important announcement at his inauguration, saying that he would set in motion an amnesty bill to pardon Pascal Lissouba, who had gone into exile after his 1997 ouster and was convicted of crimes On 27 March 2015 Sassou Nguesso announced that his government would hold a referendum to change the 2002 constitution, which would allow him to run for a third consecutive term in office. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. They need to think globally and act locally. A new constitution was agreed upon in January 2002 which granted the president new powers and extended presidential terms from five to seven years. Some political leaders are not only powerful, but also rich. The total was pointed out by the British newspaper In July 2007, the British NGO Global Witness published documents on its website that appear to show that the President’s son, Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, may have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that may derive from the country’s oil sales on shopping sprees in Paris and Dubai.
José Veiga, a businessman under investigation in Portugal for his alleged involvement in corruption and money laundering in Congo, acted as the frontman. In January 2007, Sassou Nguesso’s international reputation suffered a blow after a panel of judges in France reopened an official investigation into the alleged role of Sassou Nguesso’s government in the 1999 disappearance of 353 Congolese refugees. During his first period as President, he headed the single-party régime of the Congolese Party of Labour(PCT) for 12 years. His election was the result of a compromise reached to prevent the chairmanship from going to Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan.Sassou Nguesso was re-elected as President of the Central Committee of the PCT at the party’s Fifth Extraordinary Congress in December 2006. Il rentre au Congo et poursuit sa carrière militaire jusqu’à devenir commandant des forces terrestres.