Part one of term paper
Five years after losing presidential elections, General Denis Sassou Nguesso is back in power in Congo-Brazzaville. In a rapid offensive, his Cobra militia captured the capital Brazzaville and the second city Pointe-Noire last week and have since tightened their grip on the rest of the country. His rival, the democratically-elected President ...

Part two of term paper
... Brazzaville, pounded by indiscriminate shelling, is all but deserted. More than 50 percent of Congo-Brazzaville's population of 2.6 million were urban based. Thousands are now scattered throughout the country and region. Members of a UN inter-agency humanitarian assessment mission which arrived in the country on Tuesday reported the centre of the capital was "completely destroyed" and resembled a ghost town. They said dead bodies, many rotting, littered the streets. The mission, made up of field r ...