Oil- and gas-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Zambia are among the 12 African countries to benefit.
Though perhaps 150, 000 died of exhaustion or disease, some walked right across Congo and reached Congo-Brazzaville.
Congo Brazzaville is on the right track and is ripe for new foreign economic development.
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The aircraft had taken off from Yaounde, Cameroon, on Saturday bound for Yangadou in Congo-Brazzaville.
The Ninjas then attacked the railway that links Brazzaville with Congo's only sizeable seaport, Pointe Noire.
The report focuses on five countries - Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan and Nauru.
These youngsters from Brazzaville or Capetown are awarded scholarships to learn Mandarin and attend Chinese schools.
Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni stumbled across the Sapeurs when he travelled to Brazzaville in 2007.
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Congo-Brazzaville is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-biggest oil producer , but it does not look rich.
Three years ago, Angolan troops went to Congo-Brazzaville to restore Denis Sassou-Nguesso to power (see article).
In Congo-Brazzaville thousands of people fled the capital after an army operation to seize illegal weapons caused panic.
Ndalla travels back to Brazzaville in the summer and takes pride in showing off his very British attire.
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During media interviews, he claimed to own gold, diamond and manganese mines in South Africa, Zambia and Congo Brazzaville.
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Dixy Ndalla, 30, was born and raised in Brazzaville, but has lived in London since the age of 17.
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Meanwhile, almost untouched by the war, Congo-Brazzaville's 230, 000 barrels of oil per day keep flowing from the offshore rigs.
Half the refugees are thought to be roaming in the southern Pool region, a no-man's-land between Brazzaville and Dolisie.
To this day Kinshasa's Sapeurs dress less conservatively than their suit-sporting Brazzaville brethren.
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Tiny Congo-Brazzaville, with only 2.6m people, is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-largest oil producer.
France is leading a campaign to begin rebuilding Brazzaville ironical if, as some claim, it was indirectly implicated in its destruction.
Fighting between supporters of Congo-Brazzaville 's President Pascal Lissouba and his predecessor, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, broke out again in the capital.
He formed a band, Victoria Kin, named after Victoria Brazza, a rival in the French Congo (today's Republic of Congo-Brazzaville).
Senegal and Togo are tied on ten points apiece, as are Zambia courtesy of a 3-2 win over Congo in Brazzaville.
But the WHO says it has concluded a vaccination campaign in Angola, DR Congo, Congo (Brazzaville), Namibia, Zambia, Gabon and Sao Tome.
Once dressed in their finery, Brazzaville's Sapeurs will often head to "Le Main Bleu, " a favorite bar, where they have informal contests.
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In Brazzaville, it's common for Sapeurs to rent or borrow clothes from fellow fops or requisition them from friends visiting from Europe.
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The city's inhabitants are now moving back into the suburbs of Brazzaville from the villages they had fled to during the war.
Just upstream from modern day Brazzaville city are the huge "cataracts" - rocks which, for millenia, have stopped river boats passing this point.
Mr dos Santos has been sorely disappointed by the new presidents of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, whom his forces helped to bring to power.
And if he turned out to be Congo-Brazzaville's kingmaker, he would have great influence in an oil-rich country with a major port on the Atlantic coast.
It is feared that this looting could spread across the Zaire river to Brazzaville, in Congo, where Kinshasa's rich have set themselves up.
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