The Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
As one of six countries that share the Congo Basin, the world''s second-largest area of contiguous tropical rainforest (after the Amazon), Congo faces conservation challenges, including wildlife
Get QuoteThe legislative branch is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the National Assembly; members are elected to serve six-year and five-year terms, respectively. For administrative purposes, Congo is...
As one of six countries that share the Congo Basin, the world''s second-largest area of contiguous tropical rainforest (after the Amazon), Congo faces conservation challenges, including wildlife
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Understand the impact of political instability, military coups, and the fight for democratic reforms in this rich historical context. Discover how Congo aims for modernization and integration into the global
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Economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule in Congo centered on natural resource extraction. Construction of the Congo–Ocean Railway following World War I has been estimated to
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The northeast is part of the western Congo basin and is made up of a vast 60,000-square-mile (155,000-square-km) plain that slopes eastward from the western mountains and plateaus to the
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Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo. A quarter century of experimentation with Marxism was abandoned in 1990 and a
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Under the constitution of 2002, Congo is a republic. The executive branch of the government is headed by the president, who is popularly elected to a maximum of two seven-year
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The Congo, officially The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic (its name from 1971 to 1997; the period during which the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo was officially named Zaire), is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to the northwest by Cameroon, to the northeast by the Central African Republic
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Ordain and establish for the Congo this Constitution that enunciates the fundamental principles of the Republic, defines the rights and the duties of the citizens and establishes the forms of organization
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Following independence as the Congo Republic on August 15, 1960, Fulbert Youlou, a Catholic priest who had been instrumental in the steps to independence, became the first president until labor
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In 2015 the country adopted a new constitution that extends the maximum number of presidential terms and years to three terms of five years and provides complete immunity to former
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Congo-Brazzaville should not be confused with its much larger neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa. A former French colony, Congo-Brazzaville has a legal system
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