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Foreign media are publishing reports about another anti-French coup on the African continent - now in the Congo

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Foreign media are publishing reports about another anti-French coup on the African continent - now in the Congo

There is information about another coup on the African continent. Following Niger and Gabon, the president was allegedly overthrown in the Republic of the Congo (not to be confused with the DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo). Like Niger and Gabon, the Republic of the Congo for a long time remained virtually completely controlled by France. The authorities of this country were also largely controlled from Paris. However, now the best times have come for Paris in this regard.


It is reported that the military has taken power in Congo. Moreover, as in Niger, this was done by members of the personal presidential guard, opposing French control.

Foreign media claim that the President of the Republic of Congo, 79-year-old Denis Sassou Nguesso, has left the country and headed to the United States. The official application at the moment is “to participate in a meeting of the UN General Assembly.”

It is alleged that the Congolese military has already taken control of all key administrative buildings in the capital, Brazzaville.

The Republic of Congo is a country in western Africa with a population of about 5,3 million people, about half of whom are Christians. In terms of GDP per capita, it ranks 140th in the list of countries in the world. President Sassou Nguesso has ruled the country since 1979. The republic gained formal independence from France only in 1960. After this, a series of coups d'etat began, many of which are believed to have been carried out with the participation of Western intelligence services.

The main income is oil exports. The Republic of the Congo has access to the sea and is part of OPEC.

If the military in Congo retains power, it will be another defeat for France on the African continent in the past few months.

Meanwhile, Congo's communications minister claims that foreign media reports about the coup are untrue. According to him, everything is calm in the country. Although there were problems with the Internet in the Congo. The minister does not comment on this, nor does he say whether he himself is actually in the country.
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  1. Vasyan1971
    Vasyan1971 17 September 2023 20: 51
    +27
    There is information about another coup on the African continent.

    The shirt went to tear!
    Macaron is a loser! wassat
    1. Shurik70
      Shurik70 17 September 2023 22: 24
      +5
      Sassou Nguesso has ruled the country since 1979

      However ...
      Outdid my dad.
    2. carpenter
      carpenter 18 September 2023 05: 23
      -1
      Quote: Vasyan1971
      The shirt went to tear!
      Macaron is a loser!

      Once there’s such a booze, cut the last cucumber (Macron).
      1. Serg koma
        Serg koma 18 September 2023 08: 25
        0
        Quote: carpenter
        cut the last cucumber

        There are two countries in Africa called Congo. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and simply the Republic of the Congo (ROC). It's too early to cut someone laughing
        The stuffing was made by the French publication LesNews. It reported that while the Congolese president was visiting New York, the mutinous army seized key installations in the capital. And the leader of the rebels is the head of the presidential guard, Serge Oboa.
        Shortly after the first reports, Congolese Minister of Communications Thierry Mungala published an official denial on the social network X/Twitter. He wrote that everything is calm in the country and there are no coups observed.

        We assure public opinion of the prevailing calm and invite people to calmly go about their business, the minister wrote.
    3. knn54
      knn54 19 September 2023 17: 08
      +1
      “Whoever doesn’t gallop is a guard, a macronyaku to a gilyak,”
  2. cat Rusich
    cat Rusich 17 September 2023 20: 54
    +35
    Macron and France as a whole somehow didn’t have a good 2023... belay
    So they need good
    1. isv000
      isv000 17 September 2023 21: 41
      +5
      Quote: cat Rusich
      Macron and France as a whole somehow didn’t have a good 2023...

      And thank God!
      Let her ask from her “bushka” that she proposed to place a phallus on Notre Dame instead of a spire. fool After all, we were taught in childhood: do not blaspheme! Don't steal! Further - in the text...
  3. paul3390
    paul3390 17 September 2023 20: 56
    +11
    Somehow I already doubt that this is all our work... The scope is painfully wide, the Russian Federation does not have such resources and such connections. Maybe it’s like the American partners decided that the paddling pools are not up to the rank of the estate?
    1. lwxx
      lwxx 17 September 2023 21: 09
      +12
      Quote: paul3390
      that this is all our work.. The scope is painfully wide,

      These are the same opinions. Most likely a complex decision by Moscow and Beijing. The Chinese are extremely interested, like us, in resolving the African issue.
    2. igorbrsv
      igorbrsv 17 September 2023 21: 12
      +10
      It's like that. But they come to us to pay their respects. "White House Sunset" - new series wassat
    3. Arkadich
      Arkadich 17 September 2023 21: 14
      +4
      Maybe it’s like the American partners decided that the paddling pools are not up to the rank of the estate?

      It is unlikely, unless of course these are US proteges; it is not profitable for the Americans to undermine oil prices now. Most likely, as in Gabon, there is a change of owners. “A kind word with a gun is always better than just a kind word.”
    4. Sailor
      Sailor 17 September 2023 21: 21
      +3
      Quote: paul3390
      Somehow I already doubt that this is all our work... The scope is painfully wide, the Russian Federation does not have such resources and such connections. Maybe it’s like the American partners decided that the paddling pools are not up to the rank of the estate?

      Well, I don’t know, I don’t know... It’s not for nothing that we went there on boats with cargo...
    5. antivirus
      antivirus 17 September 2023 21: 24
      -3
      Quite possible. Take it from France (EU), bite it and resell it at exorbitant prices to Beijing. What is more valuable to them - Taiwan or Africa? In dollars or influence in the 2nd half of the 21st century?
    6. tralflot1832
      tralflot1832 17 September 2023 21: 50
      +3
      What kind of misfortune has befallen France, again in trade and with this African country, China in one of the first roles. bully
      1. Alex777
        Alex777 17 September 2023 22: 07
        +1
        Quote: tralflot1832
        What kind of misfortune has befallen France?

        The news is good, but we have to wait until morning.
        For confirmation to come.
        The Congolese president has so far denied the coup.
    7. isv000
      isv000 17 September 2023 21: 51
      +4
      Quote: paul3390
      Somehow I already doubt that this is all our work... The scope is painfully wide, the Russian Federation does not have such resources and such connections. Maybe it’s like the American partners decided that the paddling pools are not up to the rank of the estate?

      Nope. It’s not for nothing that the GDP is famous for its multi-move moves - with “Wagner” everything is far from as simple as it seems to us... It seems to me that somewhere, perhaps on that same Limpopo, in simple huts with air conditioning, the fate of Af... France is being decided and other colonialists... For Prigozhin and Utkin - standing, clinking glasses!!! drinks hi Well, for the Supreme drinks soldier
    8. SSR
      SSR 17 September 2023 22: 00
      -5
      Quote: paul3390
      Somehow I already doubt that this is all our work... The scope is painfully wide, the Russian Federation does not have such resources and such connections. Maybe it’s like the American partners decided that the paddling pools are not up to the rank of the estate?

      Read and listen.))
      Did not work out. When will it be possible to add video links not only from sanctioned YouTube?

      wanted to make slaves out of “black” people
      3 weeks ago • 355K views
      6 liked it

      The only major European power that did not participate in this process [of slavery] were the Russians. The Russians did not want to make slaves out of black people. And those of you who need to start studying a little Russian history should know that Russian poets come first. Whom they call the father of their literature - the black man - Pushkin. And to this day in the Orthodox Church they venerate the black Madonna and the black Christ. Because Russians know a lot about black people. I am telling this to you because I know that you are sitting in front of your TV screens and absorbing all the propaganda of “now we will go and take the Russians, and the Russians will be defeated, the Russians will be crushed by the Ukrainians, Viva Ukraine.”

      You are so stupid. You people are so stupid. You people are so stupid that you didn’t listen to the propaganda. I applaud you. Because the vast majority of people absorb it. And they have a very short memory. Russians have been waging war since the XNUMXth century. And they never lost. They only lost minor skirmishes. They were constantly attacked. But the Russians have always been able to repel those who wanted to destroy the Russians. Today is no different.
      https://dzen.ru/video/watch/64e8c4d179e9a62cce3bc9a8?share_to=link
      Sorry the video doesn't attach.
      1. Kaufman
        Kaufman 18 September 2023 06: 06
        -3
        There were enough serfs... all these poets spoke French and gave each other villages on holidays, passed on souls by inheritance, separated children from their parents, note their fellow tribesmen, the Orthodox!
        As for not losing wars - the Crimean in the mid-19th century and the Russian-Japanese, and it should be noted that the heroic imperial fleet with a glorious history was destroyed by the Japanese fleet, whose officers were the first generation of the fleet, trained by the British.
        Get off the cloud and look at life straight! This is exactly what we need right now
    9. Plate
      Plate 17 September 2023 22: 02
      +4
      Quote: paul3390
      Somehow I already doubt that this is all our work... The scope is painfully wide, the Russian Federation does not have such resources and such connections.

      If we assume that the Russian Federation is simply throwing out its rulers, and does not particularly intend to support the new authorities, then why not? In my opinion, this would be a reasonable strategy. But yes, Russia was not famous for coups before.
    10. uralex
      uralex 17 September 2023 22: 08
      +9
      Somehow I doubt that this is all our work...

      It’s more like a chain reaction of a series of events: weak Western politicians, a weakening economy due to anti-Russian sanctions and bottomless support for Ukraine, Russia’s active policy with African countries on the principles of mutual respect, and the example of its neighbors - all of this is a trigger for active action for the African opposition.
    11. sadam2
      sadam2 17 September 2023 22: 24
      +3
      In Africa, a new fight is starting right now.
      The Chinese are investing very aggressively in roads, schools and infrastructure. for 250 billion already
      Lavrov did not leave there. but our 20 billion is nothing.
      Armageddon was exiled there ... the topic of bread right now ... cooks raised lard a year until recently
  4. nikolas 83
    nikolas 83 17 September 2023 20: 57
    +15
    It turns out that two people can play regime change. Another country is getting rid of robbers. I hope for further continuation.
  5. Roust
    Roust 17 September 2023 21: 02
    +9
    Good series: "The Fall of Paris". The Motherland will not forget our screenwriters.
  6. Cat Alexandrovich
    Cat Alexandrovich 17 September 2023 21: 02
    +8
    Nothing can destroy Africans' love for democracy!
  7. 16112014nk
    16112014nk 17 September 2023 21: 05
    +6
    Another anti-French...
    Don't go paddling pools to Africa for a walk...
  8. kventinasd
    kventinasd 17 September 2023 21: 18
    0
    Congolese authorities deny reports of a coup in the country.
    Earlier, the French publication LesNews reported that while the President of the Republic is in New York, the army is seizing key facilities in the capital, Brazzaville.
    Congo's communications minister wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that everything was calm in the country. LSI AFRICA also called the information about the coup d'etat fake.
    https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/18771095
  9. A2AD
    A2AD 17 September 2023 21: 29
    +5
    The official application at the moment is “to participate in a meeting of the UN General Assembly.”
    Obviously it's stretching the tires. Indeed, he won’t say that he is a president without a country. And while he is traveling around the UN, the Congolese themselves appointed an IO. So it's unlikely he'll want to go back. By the way, a good topic. Declare that the president is captured by foreign intelligence services, and all his statements are made under pressure, and therefore are invalid until he returns to the country. Well, during the absence the country will be governed by the IO.
  10. Virus-free crown
    Virus-free crown 17 September 2023 21: 31
    -1
    Reminds me of a classic... bully
    It is reported that the military has taken power in Congo. Moreover, as in Niger, this was done by members of the personal presidential guard, opposing French control.


    1. Bingo
      Bingo 17 September 2023 21: 54
      0
      “they were driving there - they were being chased”...
      I would pray for it not to be there
  11. solar
    solar 17 September 2023 21: 33
    +2
    The Republic of the Congo remained virtually completely controlled by France for a long time.

    The author is a storyteller. Sassou Nguesso became president in 1979, was distinguished by his pro-Soviet orientation, was one of the founders of the Marxist-Leninist Congolese Party of Labor (CPT), joined its Central Committee, and in 1970 - the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPT. After 1991, he tried to start perestroika in the Congo, but lost power in the 1992 elections. But later, using the help of dos Santos and the Angolan army, he seized power in the Congo by military means.
    The outcome of the battles in favor of Sassou Nguesso was decided by the military intervention of Angola. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was interested in the victory of Sassou Nguesso, his ally of the 1980s. Angolan troops occupied key installations in Brazzaville and quickly brought the situation under control. On October 25, 1997, Denis Sassou Nguesso was declared President of the Congo for the second time. His return to power was accompanied by a wave of repressions; in the first six months, about a hundred political executions and a large number of arbitrary arrests were recorded... Formally, democratic and market principles are proclaimed; in reality, political power and control over economic assets, primarily oil, are concentrated in the presidential family and immediate surroundings.

    It is not surprising that a coup was organized against him.
    1. isv000
      isv000 17 September 2023 21: 58
      -2
      Quote from solar
      The author is a storyteller. Sassou Nguesso became president in 1979 and was distinguished by his pro-Soviet orientation

      Tell us here about our “Komsomol members”! For dessert you can tell us about the bonzes... fellow
  12. Bingo
    Bingo 17 September 2023 21: 50
    0
    -Well, Kongo?
    -Bingo-Bongo, mother, everything has changed!
    - What about the marathon?
    -The marathon remains, the topic has changed!
    ________
    Radio day
  13. Vasilenko Vladimir
    Vasilenko Vladimir 17 September 2023 21: 54
    0
    once - an accident
    two - pattern
    three - ...
    there’s no need to throw pasta at Russia
  14. likana
    likana 17 September 2023 21: 57
    +1
    It’s time for the Ukrainian military to take an example from the African ones; obviously, many understand the anti-people nature of the regime in Kyiv...
  15. dump22
    dump22 17 September 2023 21: 57
    +3
    The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, is a very great friend of the USSR.

    In 1970, another military junta proclaimed the construction of socialism in the Congo.
    It was headed by Captain Ngouabi, who became president, and under him Sassou Nguesso became the head of state security (later the Minister of Defense) and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPT (Congolese Party of Labor).

    Therefore, President Ngouabi was killed in 1977 by his closest loyal associates, Yombi-Opango became president, but under him Sassou Nguesso retained his post.

    And then Sassou Nguesso overthrew President Yombi-Opango in 1979 and himself became the President of the Congo and Chairman of the CPT, which he still is!

    Here he is with Brezhnev during the signing of a friendship treaty with the USSR:
  16. Al manah
    Al manah 17 September 2023 21: 58
    -3
    Instead of the face of an uninteresting black man, it would be better to place a map of Africa, with the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo highlighted.
    1. tralflot1832
      tralflot1832 17 September 2023 22: 25
      +3
      Al Manah. And I was lucky, during a flight to Windhoek Namibia in the early 90s, we were supposed to land in Kinshasa DRC, but for some reason it was closed, we landed in Brazaville RK, stood on the runway for an hour and flew to Kinshasa, they didn’t even retract the landing gear, they flew low low, across the Congo River and 20 minutes later we landed in Kinshasa. But on the way back, six months later, we landed in Brazaville. I’ll remember it for the rest of my life. The airport at that time was like a barn. I went to Duty Free, the pipes were burning. On the way back on the way to the plane, suddenly a raven flies out from around the corner and towards me. I’m on one tree, and luckily for me, he’s on another. I carefully climbed down and towards the plane. And there the crew laughed - Andrey, what was it that you rushed into a tree like that? .Told. Laughing again, pompolit with a smart look: Don’t go for a walk, children, in Africa!!! I definitely won’t go now. But I didn’t break the whiskey, it was enough to reach Malta. hi
      1. Al manah
        Al manah 18 September 2023 05: 33
        +1
        Well, not all children walked around Africa, some were not allowed to travel abroad... No. And yes, you won’t forget the place where the adrenaline rushed, I agree. Yes
  17. guest
    guest 17 September 2023 22: 01
    -2
    Foreign media are publishing reports about another anti-French coup on the African continent - now in the Congo

    I hope they really kicked out the paddling pools.
  18. 75 Sergey
    75 Sergey 17 September 2023 22: 32
    +1
    We should rejoice when anti-American coups sweep across Europe, but for now it is unknown what this will lead to.
    The country is part of OPEC, which controls the volume of oil production and, accordingly, its price.
  19. tralflot1832
    tralflot1832 17 September 2023 22: 55
    +3
    In the 90s, the PPR (fishery production refrigerated ship) of our fleet, fulfilling the food program from the UN, transported us caught horse mackerel around Africa. Quite often they were in Brazzaville. They talked about the tin. The unloading was carried out by blacks and the guards were also blacks. The loader was like, by chance, a box with he drops the fish into the water and takes the big ones into the water and swam to the shore, pushing the box in front of him.. The soldier, without saying a word, comes up to the side, takes the AK off his shoulder and hits him in the head, he is on the bottom and the box with fish is 30 kg of small horse mackerel 22 cm Then he swam, the price for a box was 6-7 $, together with fish and cardboard containers.. The blacks no longer dropped the boxes with fish until the end of unloading. The crew was constant for several years. There was something on the news, there was an AIDS outbreak in Murmansk, 17 cases .And they just arrived from the flight. It turns out that it was a fashion for them to have wives. The wives live in boats along the side, went out on deck to whistle, there were laundry bags or something else, unfinished slave owners.
    1. tralflot1832
      tralflot1832 17 September 2023 23: 24
      +1
      Not in Brazzaville, but Pointe Noire - the same state as the Republic of the Congo.
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  21. faterdom
    faterdom 17 September 2023 23: 27
    0
    How good, how good, what a coincidence! And who decided to sand the French like that?
    First, their contract was canceled on the Mistrals, then on the nuclear submarines for Australia... It was necessary to serve the Amers faithfully in order to experience their “gratitude.”
  22. Anton_from_Brest
    Anton_from_Brest 18 September 2023 01: 10
    0
    How many other countries are left under French control?
  23. Alexey Alekseev_5
    Alexey Alekseev_5 18 September 2023 01: 38
    -1
    Pasta passed through Africa. It was in vain that the Vagners were dispersed soldier
  24. Tim666
    Tim666 18 September 2023 02: 58
    -1
    Quote from S.S.R.
    Quote: paul3390
    Somehow I already doubt that this is all our work... The scope is painfully wide, the Russian Federation does not have such resources and such connections. Maybe it’s like the American partners decided that the paddling pools are not up to the rank of the estate?

    Read and listen.))
    Did not work out. When will it be possible to add video links not only from sanctioned YouTube?

    wanted to make slaves out of “black” people
    3 weeks ago • 355K views
    6 liked it

    The only major European power that did not participate in this process [of slavery] were the Russians. The Russians did not want to make slaves out of black people. And those of you who need to start studying a little Russian history should know that Russian poets come first. Whom they call the father of their literature - the black man - Pushkin. And to this day in the Orthodox Church they venerate the black Madonna and the black Christ. Because Russians know a lot about black people. I am telling this to you because I know that you are sitting in front of your TV screens and absorbing all the propaganda of “now we will go and take the Russians, and the Russians will be defeated, the Russians will be crushed by the Ukrainians, Viva Ukraine.”

    You are so stupid. You people are so stupid. You people are so stupid that you didn’t listen to the propaganda. I applaud you. Because the vast majority of people absorb it. And they have a very short memory. Russians have been waging war since the XNUMXth century. And they never lost. They only lost minor skirmishes. They were constantly attacked. But the Russians have always been able to repel those who wanted to destroy the Russians. Today is no different.
    https://dzen.ru/video/watch/64e8c4d179e9a62cce3bc9a8?share_to=link
    Sorry the video doesn't attach.

    Of course, I feel sorry for black slaves, but I don’t feel sorry for my serfs, actually slaves. For reference, when the metro was built in England, serfdom was abolished in the Republic of Ingushetia. We call the Yoke, the Livonian War and many other lost wars minor skirmishes and bingo!!! History of the Russian Federation, patch 2023 ready
  25. Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov 18 September 2023 03: 40
    -2
    ***
    - “Baby, your place is in Paris!” ...


    ***
  26. U-58
    U-58 18 September 2023 03: 48
    +1
    And who said that the new administration will not be friends with France? The name Sasu-Ngeso was constantly in the media exactly 40 years ago. And how they welcomed him in Moscow, how they tamed him!
    But he’s a great guy: he skimmed off the Soviet cream and reoriented himself towards the French.
    So the current coup may simply be a struggle for power within the country.
  27. LeutnantTom
    LeutnantTom 18 September 2023 05: 33
    -1
    Speaking of Africa
    African Invasion of Europe. Over the past three days, approximately 10 people have fled Africa to Italy. And the Western European media talks more and more about migration and less and less about the Eastern Ukrainian conflict. This could be a good or bad sign. Also, do not forget about Corona, on the day when Putin gave the order to liberate Donbass, Corona was defeated. This was the case, at least in Western Europe. Coronavirus was no longer a media topic, only Eastern Ukraine, Putin and actor Zelensky. And what is the topic that is relevant again now? namely Corona. The conflict in eastern Ukraine will end in the fall of the 000rd or at the latest in the spring of the 23th.

    Before Coronavirus and further African revolutions end the war in eastern Ukraine, there is still much to be done before we get there. for example, American and German cruise missiles and constant attacks by Ukrainian drones. And of course the fighting at the front.
  28. Kaufman
    Kaufman 18 September 2023 06: 00
    0
    Since 1979..... A ruler like Assad and Kim Jong-In has emerged. Apparently the people got tired after 44 years.
    I can’t help but feel that China is quietly and consistently pursuing its expansion
  29. Petr_Koldunov
    Petr_Koldunov 18 September 2023 13: 07
    0
    That's it... Now the big leader Denis Sosu Trenki is unlikely to return to his homeland. There they can eat it if it's hot. And in Paris there is probably an apartment in Montmartre. Somehow he will live... laughing
  30. Pravodel
    Pravodel 19 September 2023 08: 28
    0
    We would also need to carry out a coup and finally cleanse the state of liberals... from those who have been sitting on the neck of Russia, the people of Russia, for 30 years, not allowing us to develop normally and everyone is looking at the damned West, as if escape in time and not end up in Vorkuta or sunny Magadan. One of these figures was allowed to escape. Now he has changed his shoes and become a devout Jew...