While Washington debates its Africa policy in committee rooms, and Brussels lectures the continent about governance benchmarks it can’t meet itself, the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, is doing something refreshingly old-fashioned: governing.

Stability Is the Story

At a time when coups have toppled governments across the Sahel, when jihadist insurgencies are spreading from Mali to Mozambique, and when Western-backed “democratic transitions” are leaving failed states in their wake, Congo-Brazzaville under Denis Sassou Nguesso’s leadership stands apart. It hasn’t collapsed. It hasn’t burned. It has, by the metrics that…

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