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.
The Republic of the Congo (ROC) is making significant strides in its energy sector, with the successful start-up of its Congo LNG development – transforming the country into an LNG exporter – and Moho Nord field expansion project.
Revered by the IndigenousMbuti and Efe tribes as a spiritual symbol and uplifted by the DemocraticRepublic of Congo as a national one, the okapi is deserving of a nickname as mystical as “forest ...
In 2024, there have been more than 25,000 suspected mpox cases and 723 deaths in Africa, mainly in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, according to the World Health Organization, which has declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
Separately, the Global Fund -- a partnership set up in 2002 to battle AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- said it would provide $9.5 million towards the mpox response in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, at the epicentre of the current epidemic ... .