Letteratura scientifica selezionata sul tema "Sassou Nguesso"

To the many tragedies in Africa since the end of the Cold War one may now add the civil war that devastated the Congo Republic from June to October 1997. This war not only ended Congo’s fragile experiment with democracy but also left some 10,000 Congolese citizens dead and countless more homeless, bereaved, or embittered. Artillery bombardment followed by looting destroyed much of Brazzaville’s inner city. Since seizing power in mid-October 1997, former (and again) president Dennis Sassou-Nguesso has only slowly restored public order. As of March 1998, only a few parts of town had partial phone service, water, and electricity. Congo’s long-delayed development is once again on hold as the new government grapples to restore basic services.

Colonial archaism, modern sorcery and territorialisation of politics in Brazzaville, 1959-1995. Brazzaville, Congo’s foremost battleground, scene of countless deaths, incarnation of the State and the country’s main demographic reservoir, remains an essential issue in the struggles for power. But more than that, this city has structured the recent division of the entire Congolese space. The Lissouba, Kolélas and Sassou Nguesso strongholds reproduced the Brazzaville model with regard to sacredness and spatial order, rather than creating a new one. Each stronghold has its own central fortress, its spiritual places and its garrisons. The division of Congo during the recent civil wars illustrates not so much the reappearance of ancient geography as the contamination of the countryside by the strange modernity of the capital.

Introduction: The avascular osteonecrosis of the femoral head (AOFH) is a common complication of sickle cell disease (SCD). It exposes to lameness and sometimes to a very debilitating handicap. It is a source of desocialization, particularly in developing countries where prosthetic surgery remains inaccessible to the majority. This survey aimed to identify the risk of occurence AOFH. Materials and Methods: It was a case-control study carried between october 2017 and september 2021 at the National Reference Center for SCD « Antoinette Sassou Nguesso » in Brazzaville. It concerned 31 children with clinical and radiographic signs of AOFH. Clinical (age at diagnosis of SCD, frequency of vasoocclusive crises and hospitalization for vasoocclusive crises, number of blood transfusion) as well as hematological examination (blood count in the intercritical period) and hydroxyurea treatment were compared with those of 62 children with no clinical and radiographic signs of AOFH. The chi2 statistical test and the odds ratio were used for the comparison (P ˂ 0.05). Results: The sex ratio was 1.38 versus 0.93 (p = 0.50). The mean age of diagnostic of SCD was 3.76 ± 2.56 years versus 3.94 ± 2.01 years (p = 0.81). Logistic regression showed that SCD children with AOFH had a significantly higher rate of annual frequency of VOC (4.16 ± 1.18 vs 2.91 ± 1.68; P = 0.015), annual frequency of hospitalization for VOC (3.74±1.65 vs 1.45 ± 1.28; P = 0.000) and number of blood transfusions (3.38 ± 2.69 vs 2.42 ± 2.32; P = 0.03). Conclusion: Emphasis should be placed on the prevention and early management of acute complications of SCD. The role of hydroxyurea should be clarified by further work.

Virtually all African autocrats now govern with parliaments and organize regular, multiparty elections. They have little choice. Since the end of the Cold War, Western governments have required nominally democratic institutions in exchange for aid, investment, and debt relief. With violent repression impossible to conceal from the international community, life as an autocrat has grown more difficult. Since 1989, autocrats forced to govern with nominally democratic institutions have been 80% more likely to lose power than their counterparts. Between 1986 and 2000, the number of autocracies in Africa fell from 45 to 30. The rate of democratization has slowed, for Africa's autocrats learned to survive democratic institutions. To understand how, this dissertation focuses on the Republic of Congo, ruled by Denis Sassou Nguesso for all but five years since 1979. Using original data on the Congolese elite, their political parties, elections, and the security apparatus, this dissertation finds that Africa's autocrats confront challenges old and new with different constraints. Accordingly, they find different solutions. Whereas autocrats once relied on single parties to prevent elite coups, they now secure compliance with social tools. By redefining the pool of candidates for the regime's critical positions, Africa's autocrats employ a "politics of hope," which induces loyalty when elites are excluded from the regime. To monitor appointees, Africa's contemporary autocrats create social institutions, in which new recruits interact with trusted aides. Autocrats supplement these with parallel governments, which force elites separated by cleavages to compete against each other. When Africa's autocrats deploy these monitoring devices effectively, they forgo arbitrary purges in favor of tenure policies that reward competence. The international community's insistence on elections creates "focal moments," when citizens sense their shared discontent. Since they believe international attention will shield them from repression, opposition leaders mobilize unrest. This institutional landscape compels autocrats to fashion electoral alliances with opposition leaders. By joining the regime they once impugned, opposition leaders sacrifice public credibility for ministerial perquisites. Popular goodwill constitutes an insurance policy, and so Africa's autocrats commission surrogates to generate it. With repression less credible, autocrats construct their security apparatuses to threaten violence without provoking it.
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Après l’indépendance, les dirigeants congolais ont mis en place diverses politiques sociales en vue de l’amélioration des conditions de vie des populations, à l’instar du Plan National de Développement 2018-2022 du Président Denis Sassou-Nguesso. Ce plan est caractérisé par le manque de reconnaissance du rôle des langues et cultures locales dans l’enseignement en vue du développement durable. Or, en Afrique, l’insertion des langues locales dans le système éducatif suscite toujours de fortes tensions qui sont sanctionnées par des représentations favorables ou défavorables qui peuvent entraîner la réussite ou l’échec d’un éventuel programme. Ainsi, l’examen préalable des représentations des élèves, des enseignants et des parents paraît indispensable. Le présent travail révèle le chaînon manquant du PND 2018-2022 du Congo ; analyse les représentations linguistiques des Congolais vis-à-vis de l’intégration des langues nationales dans l’enseignement et de leur officialisation et ; présente le rôle des langues locales dans l’alphabétisation et la formation des paysans pour le développement de la nation.