Congo - Brazzaville


Flag of Congo Brazzaville (Wikipedia)

Official Name: The Republic of Congo

Official languages: French

Area: 342,000 km2

Population: 4,366,266 (2012 estimate)


Map of Congo Brazzaville (Wikipedia)

Geography

Region: Congo-Brazzaville is a country in Central Africa

Border Countries

Gabon 1,903km
Cameroon 523km
Central African Republic 46 km
Angola exclave of Cabinda 201 km
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,410 km


Coat of Arms of Congo Brazzaville (Wikipedia

Government - Presidential republic

President - Denis Sassou Ngesso

Independence from France - August 15, 1960

Currency: Central African CFA franc (XAF)

Internet TLD: .cg

Calling code: +242

Links

15 African leaders sign pact aimed at ending cycle of war
Sunday 21 November 2004
By SUKHDEV CHHATBAR DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Nov 20, 2004 (AP) — Fifteen African leaders signed Saturday a framework agreement that took ten years to reach aimed at ending the cycle of war and dictatorship in central Africa, but U.N. (...)
Tanzania ready to host first Great Lakes Region summit
Sunday 14 November 2004
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 13, 2004 (Xinhua) — All preparations have been complete for the first summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region on issues of peace, stability, reconstruction and development, the Tanzanian (...)
African Union will send more troops to Sudan’s Darfur if asked: Obasanjo
Saturday 4 September 2004
BRAZZAVILLE, Sept 4 (AFP) — The African Union will send more troops to Sudan’s war-torn western Darfur region if asked to do so, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is the current head of the AU, said during a visit to the Congo (...)
FMs in Great Lakes region focus on disarmament program
Wednesday 17 November 2004
By Cheng Zhiliang, Yi Gaochao DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 16, 2004 (Xinhua) — A proposed regional disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, reintegration and resettlement (DDRRR) program triggered intensive and prolonged debate when foreign (...)
Congo’s Sassou Nguesso favoured as next AU chairman
Monday 23 January 2006
Jan 22, 2006 (BRAZZAVILLE) — Several heads of state have asked Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso to take over the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) during an imminent summit in Khartoum, Congo’s prime minister said Sunday. (...)
African secret services plan to create information exchange forum
Sunday 2 May 2004
LUANDA, Angola, May 1 (AngolaPress) — The director general of the External Intelligence Services of Angola (SIE), Fernando Garcia Miala, on Thursday, in Luanda, defended the creation of a forum for concert, coodination and exchange of (...)

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