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Anatole Collinet Makosso! As per a decree read out on Wednesday evening on state television by President Sassou Nguesso's chief of staff, General Florent Ntsiba. Makosso will be replacing Mouamba -- who resigned on May 5 following the swearing-in on April 16 of President Denis Sassou Nguesso. The 77-year-old Sassou was re-elected in early April for a fifth five-year term and has occupied the presidential office for 37 years, so far. Anatole Collinet Makosso was born in 1965 in the economic capital Pointe-Noire in the southern region of the country. A teacher by training but also a writ...

Congolese Head of State Denis Sassou Nguesso appointed Wednesday evening a new Prime Minister, Anatole Collinet Makosso, Minister of Education in the outgoing government, an official source said.