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Viewing cable 09BRAZZAVILLE15, BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - JANUARY 15, 2009

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09BRAZZAVILLE15 2009-01-15 14:07 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Brazzaville
P 151407Z JAN 09
FM AMEMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1244
INFO AFRICOM
AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY KIGALI PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY KINSHASA PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY BANGUI PRIORITY 
AMEMBASSY BRAZZAVILLE
UNCLAS BRAZZAVILLE 000015 
 
 
DEPT FOR AF/EX PMO MARTINEZ 
DEPT FOR AF/C DESK OFFICER 
PARIS FOR AFRICA WATCHERS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD SCUL KPAO CF
SUBJECT: BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - JANUARY 15, 2009 
 
1. NEW YEAR GREETINGS:   We wish all our correspondents and 
well-wishers a happy 2009.  After a holiday break, we today 
resume publication of "Brazzaville in Brief."  It is our 
intention to publish this series each week, on Thursday or 
Friday, to highlight ongoing interesting developments in 
Brazzaville in addition to spot reporting in greater depth on 
particular topics.  We welcome feedback by any channel. 
 
2. CHANGE IN BRAZZAVILLE:  Today, January 15, represents Embassy 
Brazzaville's last day in the "temporary offices" we have 
occupied for nearly three years in the BDEAC building in 
Brazzaville.  On Friday, we commence the move to our New Embassy 
Compound. 
 
3. Embassy Brazzaville took down the flag on June 18, 1997, in 
the middle of a civil war.  We will put it back up on Tuesday, 
at a new $62 million New Embassy Compound, during a low-key 
"opening of work" ceremony.  The previous chancery building was 
looted and gutted during the fighting in 1997, and since that 
time, Brazzaville personnel have worked from Kinshasa or, since 
2006, from the "temporary offices." 
 
4. Ground was broken for the $62 million NEC project in June, 
2007.  The new building reached "substantial completion" on 
November 13, 2008, three months ahead of schedule, and Under 
Secretary Kennedy signed our Certificate of Occupancy last week. 
 The state-of-the-art structure, on a ten-acre property, totals 
20,000 square feet and was designed to accommodate 114 desk 
positions.   Hats off to OBO, DS, B.L. Harbert International, 
and a multitude of other personnel and consultants for a rapid 
and high-quality job. 
 
Note to readers:  We are still hoping that we can organize a 
formal dedication ceremony later in the year with senior 
Washington participation. 
 
 
POLITICS 
 
FEATURE ARTICLE:  SIGNING UP WITH THE MAJORITY?: 
 
5. With the presidential election six months away (in July, 
2009) we perceive an orchestrated bandwagon getting under way. 
The most prominent example is Jacques Joachim Yhombi-Opango. 
 
6. Yhombi-Opango, 70, is one of the "great men" of recent 
history.  As an army officer, he was the first general officer 
of independent Congo, serving later in Congo's turbulent history 
as the country's fourth President (1977-1979) and as Prime 
Minister (1993-1996).  He is also a northerner, from Owando. 
From 1972, he was a stalwart of the ex-Marxist single (and 
currently ruling) Parti Congolais du Travail (PCT), considered 
to be of the right wing of the party.  After the third President 
Marien Ngouabi was assassinated in 1977, Yhombi-Opango served 
for two years as President.  After his forced resignation in 
1979, he was detained for several years, accused by Sassou 
Nguesso of having attempted to form a "rightist faction" in the 
PCT. 
 
7. In August 1992, he ran sixth in the presidential election, 
with 3.49% of the vote. In his native Cuvette region, Mr. 
Yhombi-Opango placed second, with 27% of the vote, behind Sassou 
Nguesso.  He backed Pascal Lissouba and Lissouba's  Union Pan 
Africaine pour la Dimocratie Sociale (UPADS) in the first round 
the 1993 parliament election, held in May. After the election, 
Mr. Yhombi-Opango was appointed as Prime Minister by the 
president Lissouba on June 23, 1993. 
 
8. Yhombi-Opango left Congo in October, 1997 after Sassou 
Nguesso came out on top in the civil war.  He returned to Congo 
in August, 2007.  Keeping his hand in politics, Yhombo-Opango 
resumed leadership of his party, the Rassemblement pour la 
Dimocratie et le Diveloppement (RDD). 
 
9. In recent days, Yhombi-Opango has withdrawn from the 
opposition coalition, denying that his party was ever in the 
opposition (though it signed certain coalition agreements with 
other parties).  He says that Congo is too small to have social 
democrats (which he claims to be) in both the opposition and the 
ruling "majority." 
 
10, Thus, last the RDD announced that it will join the ruling 
coalition Rassemblement pour la Majoriti Prisidentielle(RMP) to 
support the candidacy of the president Denis Sassou Nguesso for 
the upcoming president election. 
 
11. Why?  We hear two theories advanced, in addition to the one 
cited by Yhombi-Ophango.  The cynics say that it was because 
Yhombi-Opango was permitted to return home after ten years of 
exile.   This permission came with a house, cars, and his 
ex-presidential stipend.  The government also accepted his 
party's revival with the understanding, tacit or implied, that 
at his age, Yhombi-Opango won't be a competitor to Sassou 
Nguesso in 2009. 
 
12. But there's another explanation offered:  Yhombi-Opango's 
Kouyou ethnic group and the Mbochi of Sassou Nguesso have been 
almost literally at daggers drawn since the assassination of the 
president Marien Ngouabi and at least one other Kouyou leader. 
Many Kouyous believes that the (Mbochi) president Sassou Nguesso 
had a hand in the assassinations.  Some say that Yhombi-Opango 
has joined the government side in an attempt at reconciliation 
between these two groups - or at least an attempt not to stir up 
more animosity with a Yhombi Opango candidacy. 
 
COMMENT:  This is neither the first nor the last declaration of 
support for Sassou by leaders of other political formations. 
This one is more notable than most due to Yhombi Opango's 
stature as a former President and Prime Minister.  END COMMENT. 
 
 
PROGRAM NEWS 
 
SELF HELP FUNDS OBLIGATED: 
 
13. On December 17, the Ambassador signed seven grants with 
local NGOs obligating our entire $40,000 self-help budget for 
the year (reduced from last year's $60,000). 
 
14. The grants comprise the following activities on the part of 
local groups, who are obliged under the terms of the program to 
contribute 25 percent of the cost of the project: 
 
---   Two water wells in the Sangolo-Mbaloula area of southern 
Brazzaville ($10,000); 
 
---   A 50,000 liter cistern to store potable water in Etsouali 
in Plateau (North) ($10,000); 
 
---   Five hand-powered wheelchairs and seven sewing machines 
and supplies for handicapped in Brazzaville ($5,000); 
 
---    Bovine husbandry project in Kindamba, Pool ($5,000); 
 
---    Funds to establish a traditional soap factory to employ 
63 unemployed youth in Bifouiti, south Brazzaville ($3,000); 
 
---    Support for the creation of a cassava paste factory in 
Gamboma, Northern Congo ($6,000); and 
 
---    Support for a tailoring training project for youth in 
Brazzaville ($1,000). 
 
COMMENT:   We could use effectively as much self-help funding as 
the Department might see fit to provide.  We hope this reduction 
in funding is only temporary.  END COMMENT. 
 
 
MUSEUM CONSERVATION - CULTURAL PRESERVATION 
 
15. The Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant 
to assist the RoC National Museum to develop databases and 
research capabilities for Congolese artifacts got underway in 
December with the arrival of Elisabeth Cornu, a curator at the 
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.  Ms. Cornu has extensive 
experience working helping museums modernize their processes. 
She presented a number of training sessions to the museum staff, 
taught photography, and designed storage space for the 
collection.  Ms. Cornu will return this summer to help with 
installation of equipment that has been funded with the AFCP 
grant. 
 
 
EASTHAM