Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, 46, son of the president, takes the newly created portfolio of international cooperation and the promotion of public-private partnership. Even if the latter appears only in the 22nd place of the government in the protocol order, his entry is a marker whose evolution will be closely followed by the Congolese.

has a new government that is broadly open.

[…] He will have to implement the many campaign promises of President Sassou-Nguesso in favor of Congolese youth.

Accused of preparing his son to succeed him in power, Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has always defended himself.

But as the time goes by, it is loosening the mask.

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" the profile of Denis Christel Sassou is to say the least controversial,

The country. Because, the man, it should be remembered, is in the sights of French justice for alleged facts of "ill-gotten gains". He is being pursued by American justice for the same facts. By bombarding him as a minister in a strategic position, Sassou father hopes to get his son out of the woods since he will henceforth benefit from a certain immunity.

 The son Sassou is dragging so many pots and pans that by calling him to the government, it is as if his father was taunting his compatriots. Member of the Oyo constituency since 2012, Denis Christel does not stand out only by the relevance of the bills he had voted in the National Assembly. His rather sulphurous reputation comes more from the millions of dollars that he is accused of having embezzled to the detriment of the Congolese funds. […] His only asset, and it is not negligible, is to be the son of his father president. A status that can allow it to escape prosecution following the many scandals it drags in its wake. But above all a status which can give him the right to succeed his father […]. And that is to say,

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that the scenario playing out in Chad could occur in Congo.

As can also be considered in Cameroon or Equatorial Guinea.

With Paris, Paul Kagame turns the page on the genocide

 Rwanda is even reaching out today to the French army. Rwanda, which in fact renounces any legal proceedings against French soldiers who took part in the various operations in Rwanda. Paul Kagame is even due to meet this week with several French officers who were on duty at the time of the genocide. […] Reconciliation is therefore on the right track,

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a reconciliation about the past does not imply complacency about the present

The feeling of guilt linked to the exposure of the French turpitudes of 1994 does not authorize blindness to the authoritarian character of the current Rwandan state,"

A country where Amnesty International denounces "the enforced disappearances of members of the opposition" and where critical journalists are imprisoned. We can at the same time,

Le Monde Afrique, be indignant at the role of France in the genocide of the Tutsis and worry about the abuses of the regime of Paul Kagame