On February 12, 2006, the London Sunday Times reported that Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the Presidentof Congo-Brazzaville, another former French colony in central Africa, had spent more than three hundred thousand dollars on hotel rooms during a visit to New York for a U.N.
Fighting between supporters of Congo-Brazzaville 's President Pascal Lissouba and his predecessor, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, broke out again in the capital.