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CONGO: Beninois Fishing Community Evicted
The Autonomous Port of Pointe-Noire has evicted 8,000 residents of a fishing village to make way for expanded facilities. The move is a blow to the community’s livelihoods, as well as closing down the...
View ArticleSouth African Farmers Set Up in Congo
In the hope of strengthening its agricultural production, the Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 hectares of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers. “Our country...
View ArticleSchool Lunches Make For Happy Pupils in Congo
It’s noon at Jean-Félix Tchicaya Primary in Pointe Noire, the economic capital of Congo. Students are settling into their chairs, but not to resume their lessons. They are waiting eagerly for the hot...
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WORLD: Tropical Forest Summit Opens
Heads of state from the Amazon, Congo and Borneo-Mekong basins are meeting in the Congolese capital, Brazzaville: leaders hope to reach an accord on sound management of valuable rainforest ecoystems,...
View ArticleENVIRONMENT: Congo Basin Slow to Adopt REDD
Only two of the eleven countries that share the Congo Basin have validated their plans to participate in the forest conservation process known as REDD+. Preparatory plans for REDD (the Reduction of...
View ArticleCONGO: Many Indigenous Women Still Give Birth in the Forest
Marguerite Kassa feared she would find herself alone in the small crowd of a dozen other pregnant women at the integrated health centre in Mossendjo, in the southwestern Republic of Congo. “I am six...
View ArticleCONGO: Poachers Feel the Long Arm of New Law
Authorities in the Republic of Congo are showing an encouraging new readiness to arrest and prosecute people trading in endangered species. Chen Xiongbing, a Chinese national, was sentenced to four...
View ArticleChildren Lost in Aftermath of Congo’s Arms Dump Explosion
Five-year-old Vianey hasn’t seen his parents since a series of explosions ripped through an ammunition dump in Brazzaville on Mar. 4. A stranger, Jules Bomboko, said he found Vianey days later,...
View ArticleCongo Capital’s Schools Still Shattered From March Explosion
Three weeks after the new school year began in Brazzaville, many students in the capital of the Republic of the Congo have yet to attend a single class. The city is still trying to recover from a huge...
View ArticleWill CAR Rebels Respect the Peace Agreements?
Despite assurances by the leader of the Séléka rebel alliance, self-proclaimed president of the Central African Republic Michel Djotodia, that a “red brigade” would be established to stop the looting...
View ArticleCONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Success Stories Amongst Growing Numbers of Street Kids
Arsène SévérinBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Mar 2 2007 (IPS) Sixteen-year-old Bamanandoki Pitchou hasn’t finished his apprenticeship in hairdressing yet, but he already has a small business. A former...
View ArticleENERGY-CONGO: Extracting Honesty for an Extractive Resource
Arsène SéverinBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Nov 16 2007 (IPS) As 2007 draws to a close, citizens of Congo can look back on another year in which the challenge of introducing greater accountability into...
View ArticleCONGO: Fear, Stigma Undermine Fight Against Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
Arsène SéverinBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Jan 8 2008 (IPS) At the Integrated Health Centre of Bissita, located in the Bacongo area of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, pregnant women...
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POLITICS-GABON: Will Bongo’s Death Signal a New Chapter?
Analysis by Arsène SéverinBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Jun 18 2009 (IPS) As Omar Bongo Ondimba, the Gabonese president who died at age 73 in Barcelona on Jun. 8, is buried in Franceville in the...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE-CONGO: All Hands On Deck to Repair Rural Roads
Arsène SeverinBy Arsène SéverinNGOUHA II, Congo, Dec 22 2009 (IPS) Two kilometres from the village of Ngouha II, a party of villagers are busy repairing an old bridge made of logs, and filling in a...
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ENVIRONMENT-CONGO: Defence of Great Apes Begins With Children
Arsène Severin * - IPS/IFEJBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Dec 29 2009 (IPS) “But why do they kill gorillas, why do they trap them and put them in cages? One day, if i’m president, i’ll stop all those...
View ArticleDEVELOPMENT-CONGO: Deforestation Threatens South With Famine
Arsène SéverinBy Arsène SéverinKINKALA, Congo, Jun 22 2010 (IPS) The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In a painful irony, the end of armed conflict in 2003,...
View ArticleMobile HIV Test Unit a Hit in Congo
Arsène SéverinBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Aug 26 2010 (IPS) “I came here out of curiosity, but I ended up taking an AIDS test. I have the results,” Gerard, 30 years old, told IPS. He adds, right...
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Congo Leaves Locals Out of Conservation Plans
Arsène Séverin * - IPS/IFEJBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Nov 4 2010 (IPS) “Today, I’m ashamed to have signed the documents creating this park, because I didn’t know that we would die of hunger in the...
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CONGO: Polio Kills 100
Arsène SéverinBy Arsène SéverinBRAZZAVILLE, Nov 12 2010 (IPS) An emergency vaccination campaign against polio begins Nov. 12 in the Republic of Congo, where an epidemic centred on the southern city of...
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