Republic Of Congo
Useful links
www.gksoft.com/govt/en/cg.html: Business, travel, news, sport, you name it!.
AllAfrica.com: A news website aggregating information from over 300 sources, together with specially commissioned articles and commentaries.
AfricaGuide.com: Exhaustive resource website covering the whole of Africa – climate, travel and medical advice, visas and money, public holidays, getting around, people and culture, shopping and forums.
The Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor websites may also provide useful information.
The People’s Republic of Congo (or just The Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville, to distinguish it from the neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa, or DRC) is located on the western coastline of Central Africa, bordering with the Southern Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola to the South, Democratic Rep of Congo (formerly Zaire) to South and east, Central Africa Republic and Cameroon to the north, and Gabon to the northwest.
Independence from French control was achieved in 1960; however over the decades that followed the Republic of the Congo suffered through Marxism, a bloody civil war, on-going political instability, and ethnic unrest.
The Congo's main attractions are its tropical rainforest, and its amazing variety of animals including chimpanzees, lowland gorillas, elephants, hippopotamus, leopards and much, much more, not to mention its coastal beaches. However it is still a long way from being considered as a potential tourist destination.
