Republic of Congo: Politics and Government
(asked on 9th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in the Republic of Congo.
This question was answered on 21st February 2017
Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, has been relatively calm since the political protests of April 2016. I visited the Republic of Congo in August 2016. In my meeting with President Sassou I emphasised that the Presidential elections had been a missed opportunity to conduct a democratic transition of power and set an example to the region.