The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo-Brazzaville was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. Upon independence in 1960, the former colony of French Congo became the Republic of the Congo. The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist–Leninist one-party state from 1970 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
Real GDP growth is set to fall to 3.4% this year from 4% in 2022, before rising to 3.8% in 2024, the AfDB said in a report ...The AfDB’s biggest cut to a 2023 growth forecast was for central Africa, where there has been a coup in Gabon and ongoing conflict in eastern DemocraticRepublic of Congo, to 4.1% from 4.9% in May ... Reuters .
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From western Uganda, the East AfricanCrude Oil Pipleine will run for 1,443km through farms, forests and rivers, until it reaches the Tanzanian coast ... Opaque deals with oil traders lay at the heart of recent debt troubles in the Republic of Congo and Chad, as state firms struggled to fulfil their commitments.\nThe third option is to look east ... .
Today, on the opening day of COP28, the UN climate summit in Dubai, the host country pushed through a decision that wasn’t expected to happen until the last possible minute of the two-week gathering ... citizen. The U.S ... Catastrophic flooding in Libya, the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, and Rwanda killed more than 10,000 people this year ... The U.K ... The U.S.
COP28 is in fool (no typo there) swing in Dubai right now, and things are already getting testy. The COP28 presidency passed to the United Arab Emirates in the person of Sultan Al Jaber ... Now, let’s compare this jaw-dropping figure to the average person in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC), who emits a mere 0.08 metric tons of CO2 per year ... [CUE ... .