Congo-Brazzaville election: boycotts, blackouts and growing dissent but Denis Sassou Nguesso held on to power

By Ngodi Etanislas, enseignant-chercheur, Université Marien Ngouabi

The 2026 presidential election in Congo-Brazzaville (the Republic of the Congo) returned Denis Sassou Nguesso for a fifth consecutive term, with a definitive 94.90% of the vote.

We asked Ngodi Etanislas, a political scientist who focuses on the central African country, to sum up what happened and why it matters, now that the dust…

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~	Burkina Faso: Dissolution of more than a hundred NGOs and associations shows intensifying crackdown on civil society

~	Bird and tortoise fossil tracks on South Africa’s coast – latest findings are world firsts

~	Moroccan dinosaur’s fearsome tail spikes evolved much earlier than we thought – new discovery

~	South Africans want solar power but they worry panels will be stolen – study

~	What ‘warfare versus welfare’ gets wrong about real-life economics

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~	Christianity in the UK is flourishing in immigrant communities – but a US-style Christian nationalism is lurking elsewhere

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