By Yves Threard
Posted yesterday at 4:56pm, updated yesterday at 7:26pm
Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Moscow May 23, 2019. Evgenia Novozhenina/ Portal
EXCLUSIVE MAINTENANCE – Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso holds a way out of the civil war that is ravaging that country and facilitating illegal exits to Europe.
At 79, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who still rules Congo, is one of the African presidents who has “reigned” his country for the longest time. The president of the committee that is trying to end the Libyan conflict on behalf of the African Union now wants to be optimistic. He is less talkative when it comes to the Gabon of Ali Bongo, his neighbor with whom relations are cold and tense, to say the least. The President of the Congo confides that he is writing his memoirs. He talks about his youth, his years in power, the civil war of 1997 and all the greats of this world whose paths he has crossed, from Fidel Castro to Deng Xiaoping. He received Le Figaro at the Presidential Palace in Brazzaville.
LE FIGARO. – You saw Emmanuel Macron in Paris at the end of December, returning from the US-Africa summit in Washington. What issues did you discuss with the French President?
Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO. – I have very good relations with Emmanuel Macron. He is also…
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