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Congo-Brazzaville's hydrocarbons minister has died while in Paris, the government said in a statement on Sunday without specifying the cause.

Nearly four months after the death of Franco-Congolese journalist Bruno Jacquet OssA©bi , the Committee to Protect Journalists called today for authorities in the Republic of Congo to publicly disclose a report that was prepared weeks ago on their investigation.

Barely two weeks before presidential elections in the Republic of Congo, Marcel Kombo decided to send his wife and children away from Brazzaville.

The singers from the Congo have been enjoying the Central Coast, chilly though it may be for these visitors whose bloodstreams are more attuned to Africa's equatorial regions.

A legion of linen-clad explorers, their tailored pantsuits washed to a neutral palette of grays, greens and cream by a punishing tropical climate, charted new territory for Kenzo on Saturday.

Tuesday's signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for Peace and Reconciliation in Cabinda marks the end of 45 years of violence afflicting this Angolan province, the richest in the country because of its oil, gold, diamonds, phosphate, uranium, potassium and exotic woods.

The European Union will not send observers to Congo's presidential election, a delegation of Euro-deputies visiting Brazzaville said.

Brazzaville - Congo's Constitutional Court has rejected four candidates, including that of the main opposition party, from contesting the July 12 presidential vote, state radio announced on Friday.

As Omar Bongo Ondimba, the Gabonese president who died at age 73 in Barcelona on Jun.

THE longtime president of Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, died in Spain earlier this month.

Gabon was set to pay its final respects on Tuesday to Omar Bongo Ondimba, with a state funeral for the former president who ruled the oil-rich equatorial African country for 41 years.

Gabonese President Omar Bongo has been at the helm of the country for 42 years since he came to power in 1967, the longest serving president in Africa.

The youngest in a family of twelve children, Bongo was born on 30 December 1935 in Lewai, a town of the Haut-Ogoou province in southeastern Gabon near the border with the Republic of the Congo.

The public and private sectors in Congo have joined forces to use near-ubiquitous mobile phones in an effort to save the lives of thousands of children who die of treatable conditions every year.

Congo Brazzaville's voters head for the polls on July 12 to elect a new president.

Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba is the world's longest-serving ruler, having led his oil-producing West African state for more than four decades.

A Congolese preparatory committee for commemorating the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung was formed in Brazzaville on May 27.

Brazzaville - Congo Republic's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, said on Saturday he would run for a second seven-year term in elections next July in the oil-producing nation.

The Republic of Congo will delay finalising a multi-million hectare land deal with South African farmers until after a planned July presidential election, Brazzaville's Minister of Agriculture says.

Chef Soleil Banguid channels flavor memories of growing up in Brazzaville onto the menu of his Hayward catering business, Soleil's African Kitchen .