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[00:00:00] to see in a street corner displayed on a
[00:00:02] wall or on a plywood board
[00:00:05] writings like house for rent,
[00:00:09] one-bedroom apartment, two two-bedroom apartment, tiled ceiling
[00:00:13] not up to date or or villa for rent
[00:00:16] and land for sale, these are the works in which
[00:00:20] liberalization of the real estate agents and brokers excel,
[00:00:22] whom Congolese locally call "démarcheurs" (fixers). We are
[00:00:26] in a world where there is everything and illiterates,
[00:00:30] but he has this good because he has a house to
[00:00:33] rent, there he has tenants who have moved out and he has written a
[00:00:36] sign in front of his house, no here is the real estate agency, house for
[00:00:40] rent, no a fixer or a real estate agent must
[00:00:44] know the law, the right of prior notice, must know if the deposit
[00:00:47] is refundable or not to carry out his profession well,
[00:00:50] like in several countries, Senegal, Côte
[00:00:54] d'Ivoire, France, Belgium, not to... uh
[00:00:58] name just these
[00:01:02] examples. The activity or the profession of
[00:01:05] real estate agents began informally,
[00:01:09] so the activity arose from a
[00:01:12] public simple need, to connect
[00:01:14] uh a owner uh who
[00:01:17] was looking for clients to rent his property or
[00:01:22] Nations Organization took place (following buy his property. At first glance, as noble
[00:01:24] as this profession seems, which has rendered enormous services to
[00:01:28] those who had... movable and immovable property to sell or
[00:01:32] to put up for rent, this
[00:01:34] young profession is discrediting itself day by
[00:01:38] day through men of dubious morality who, by
[00:01:42] their greed, have made life difficult for
[00:01:46] peaceful citizens who only had to trust
[00:01:50] real estate agents. Some
[00:01:52] fixers, in any case, shady ones, are tarnishing the image of those who
[00:01:56] also work well. But
[00:01:59] members. This was the quest for most people are generally complaining about fixers, about
[00:02:02] the behavior they exhibit and a kind of scam they are
[00:02:06] carrying out, according to the population. I have already been a victim,
[00:02:09] I was looking for a house, so I spent almost the whole day
[00:02:13] looking for the house and everything he showed me didn't even
[00:02:16] correspond to 60% of the descriptions given, given that they must
[00:02:19] imperatively have the 5000 [francs], this last one managed to show me a house for
[00:02:23] example still under construction,
[00:02:26] let's say the owner was away. and that I still had to see it, and when he takes
[00:02:30] the money for the visit, he makes an appointment for me on such a day, "you will come back to see the house with the
[00:02:34] owner." To this day, the number doesn't work and he is
[00:02:38] unavailable, and that's something very astonishing and the population is fed up
[00:02:42] with that, yes I must admit it because
[00:02:45] we have, uh,
[00:02:49] a technical term, we have a word called
[00:02:52] "laser", meaning the house
[00:02:55] no longer exists or the house never
[00:02:58] existed. So. This gentleman who proclaims
[00:03:02] himself a real estate agent, a "démarcheur", will market
[00:03:05] a house that never existed or no longer
[00:03:08] exists, and will scam by extorting money from third
[00:03:13] demonstrations that resulted in the head of parties, these people who have the need to look for a
[00:03:16] house there, no. The visit must
[00:03:19] compensate for a real service. It is for this reason
[00:03:23] that before the client travels for the visit, he
[00:03:27] must ask all the questions. Do not travel for the sake of
[00:03:30] traveling, be demanding, and once you arrive, if what
[00:03:35] after his resignation from the presidency of was presented to you is not true, well, you don't pay for the
[00:03:38] visit. If there is a dispute, report it,
[00:03:41] report it to the police, the
[00:03:44] gendarmerie, or even the [unknown acronym], what I deplore with these people, they
[00:03:48] deal with professional intermediaries who
[00:03:51] don't have an address, thus
[00:03:53] contributing in some way to these bad practices. Therefore,
[00:03:56] the big question that users...
[00:04:00] ask themselves is how to stop this
[00:04:03] deep-rooted issue. If the state cannot regulate this, for example, with law
[00:04:06] number 37 on real estate agents, okay, at
[00:04:10] that time, what does the basic [law] do? It calls all these "démarcheurs",
[00:04:14] gives them a number or a card like motorcycle taxis. Today, before these
[00:04:17] motorcycle taxis were not regularized, one could say, but today they have choices, they have
[00:04:21] numbers, just like with taxis, recently, you saw, there was an operation that
[00:04:25] had been done, there were numbers, so in case of a problem, just with the number, one can
[00:04:29] directly hold them accountable.
[00:04:34] And everything must be done on paper, so the state must regulate them. Most of those
[00:04:37] who do this activity
[00:04:41] are far from employment, professional
[00:04:44] qualification,
[00:04:46] and there are also young graduates joining the sector,
[00:04:50] so there's a double challenge,
[00:04:53] that of supporting the creation of jobs and helping
[00:04:57] us professionalize at the federation level. We
[00:05:00] took this step, we went to the supervisory ministry,
[00:05:03] the Ministry of Construction, Urbanism and Housing
[00:05:07] uh, to help us professionalize the sector by
[00:05:11] commissions, regulating practices and we hope that this will happen very
[00:05:14] quickly when order intervenes in this
[00:05:18] sector of activity, sellers
[00:05:21] and buyers will breathe a sigh of
[00:05:24] relief and the managers of
[00:05:27] real estate services will testify to the benefits of the
[00:05:32] national
[00:05:33] economy.
[00:05:37] Managers of real estate agencies, their location
[00:05:41] in Brazzaville. The… of this magazine edition carried the signature
[00:05:45] of Derick Mackebour. One day, one
[00:05:48] event, September 20, 1960, September 20,
[00:05:51] 2026. Today, exactly 66 years ago, the Republic of
[00:05:55] Congo became a full member of the United Nations organization. In
[00:05:59] any case, from 1961 to our days, cooperation between Congo
[00:06:02] and the UN has intensified. From the accession of the Republic
[00:06:05] of Congo to 2026, the major events and cooperation between
[00:06:09] Congo and the UN, the first vocation of this magazine edition. The signature
[00:06:13] of director
[00:06:14] Assoula.
[00:06:17] History tells us that August 15, 1960, was the
[00:06:21] proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Congo. One month and 5
[00:06:24] days after the young state's accession to national sovereignty, that is, on
[00:06:28] September 20, 1960,
[00:06:31] its admission to the United
[00:06:34] the adoption by the General Assembly) of Resolution
[00:06:37] 1486 concerning the admission of the Republic of
[00:06:41] Congo to the organization. The United Nations now recognized it as
[00:06:44] a full member of the council of nations. The Republic of Congo was
[00:06:48] admitted to the UN on the same day as Cameroon, the Central
[00:06:51] African Republic, Chad, Congo
[00:06:54] Léopoldville, current Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon,
[00:06:57] Côte d'Ivoire, and many other African countries, a
[00:07:01] group of 17 countries, mostly former French colonies,
[00:07:04] which allowed the UN to go from
[00:07:07] 82 to 99
[00:07:11] visibility and a desire to affirm in broad daylight the legal
[00:07:15] autonomy that animated the young states. For its
[00:07:18] admission to the UN, our country benefited from the sponsorship of
[00:07:21] France and Tunisia, two countries admitted to the UN before
[00:07:25] Congo. At the time, it was a great event and the witness of this
[00:07:28] admission was named Stéphane Tchitchel as
[00:07:31] Vice-President of the Council, in charge of Foreign Affairs under the reign of the
[00:07:35] first President of Congo, Abbot Fulbert Youlou.
[00:07:38] Stéphane Tchitchel officially made the voice of
[00:07:42] Congo heard for the first time at the United Nations tribune. For the occasion, he presented our
[00:07:46] country and its flag, its motto, its area,
[00:07:49] its president and its population, without forgetting the economic
[00:07:53] potential. A great absentee from our accession to international
[00:07:57] sovereignty, President Fulbert Youlou traveled to
[00:08:00] New York in June 1961, and
[00:08:04] later met the 35th American President John
[00:08:07] Fitzgerald Kennedy, and had discussions with Dag Hammarskjöld,
[00:08:11] the second Secretary-General of the UN in office at
[00:08:15] the time of the Republic of Congo's admission. In short, the Republic of Congo
[00:08:18] managed to maintain good relations with
[00:08:21] the UN to the extent that this cooperation diversified
[00:08:24] from one year to another. As proof, apart from the fact
[00:08:27] that our country is represented at the UN, the 15
[00:08:30] specialized institutions of this organization, the 12
[00:08:33] partner programs and funds that accompany the Republic of Congo
[00:08:37] in its long march towards development.
[00:08:40] développement.
[00:08:47] are very active in our country. In return, Congo regularly
[00:08:50] fulfills its statutory obligations and always responds
[00:08:54] whenever the international community requests
[00:08:57] it. It is within this framework that Congo sends its
[00:09:00] troops on peacekeeping missions or humanitarian action
[00:09:03] under the UN label. In short,
[00:09:07] cooperation between and Congo is dynamic. The
[00:09:11] flame lit by the fathers of independence in 1960 was
[00:09:15] rekindled in recent years by those who understood that no nation can
[00:09:19] live withdrawn into itself
[00:09:21] again.
[00:09:23] Another day, another event: September 17,
[00:09:27] 2021, September 17, 2026. Today, it has
[00:09:30] been exactly 5 years since Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the 5th
[00:09:34] president of Algeria, passed away at the age of 44. He served from
[00:09:38] April 27, 1999, to April
[00:09:40] 2, 2019,
[00:09:43] a reign of 19 years, 11
[00:09:46] months, and 6 days. This is the second
[00:09:49] evocation of this magazine edition, signed by
[00:09:53] Christian
[00:09:54] Ngamialo.
[00:09:58] Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the man who presided over the destiny of the Algerian
[00:10:02] Democratic and Popular Republic for 20 years,
[00:10:05] was born on March 2, 1937, in Oujda,
[00:10:08] Morocco. Son of Ahmed Bouteflika and Mansouria
[00:10:12] Ghaoui, Abdelaziz Bouteflika engaged very young in the armed
[00:10:16] struggle and joined the nationalist maquis of the National Liberation
[00:10:19] Front who launched the revolt against France. After
[00:10:23] Algeria's independence, he participated in Ahmed Ben Billa's
[00:10:27] first government, as Minister of Youth and
[00:10:30] Sports before being appointed to Foreign Affairs. He
[00:10:34] retained this portfolio after the overthrow in
[00:10:36] 1965 of President Ben Bella by Colonel
[00:10:40] Houari Boumediene, of whom he was a loyal supporter.
[00:10:43] Abdelaziz Bouteflika remained at the head of Algerian
[00:10:46] diplomacy until Houari Boumediene's death in
[00:10:50] 1978. He then saw his chances of succeeding him
[00:10:54] vanish, the military preferring Chadli Bendjedid,
[00:10:58] the oldest military officer with the highest rank, to the one who
[00:11:01] seemed better known in international circles than in his own
[00:11:05] country. The former minister was gradually removed from power
[00:11:09] and became the target of the new regime. Forced into exile
[00:11:12] in 1981, he returned to Algeria in
[00:11:16] 1987, as Algeria sank into civil
[00:11:19] war after the interruption of the legislative elections of December
[00:11:23] 1991. The outlawing of the Islamic Salvation
[00:11:27] Front (FIS) and the establishment of a state
[00:11:29] of emergency. He was offered the leadership of the country by
[00:11:33] the army but declined the offer. Abdelaziz
[00:11:35] Bouteflika returned to the Algerian political scene in
[00:11:39] 1998 following the resignation of President
[00:11:42] Liam Zeroual, unable to contain the violence that
[00:11:46] engulfed the country and to resolve economic
[00:11:49] problems. 33% of unemployed, 70% of whom were under
[00:11:53] 30 years old. Elections were
[00:11:55] organized in which the main issue was national
[00:11:58] reconciliation. Of the six candidates on the list, five
[00:12:02] withdrew, accusing the sixth, Abdelaziz
[00:12:05] Bouteflika, of being supported by the army and the media, and
[00:12:09] also denouncing attempts at fraud. On April 15,
[00:12:12] 1999, Abdelaziz Bouteflika controversially won
[00:12:16] in the first round with 73.8%
[00:12:20] of the votes after the withdrawal of all candidates whose names
[00:12:24] were not removed from the ballots. The beginning of his
[00:12:28] presidency was marked by the end of the civil war. He was
[00:12:31] re-elected in the first round of the presidential elections of
[00:12:34] 2004, 2009, and 2014. He was thus
[00:12:38] the longest-serving Algerian head of state.
[00:12:41] He was also Minister of Defense from
[00:12:45] 2002 and honorary president of the National Liberation Front
[00:12:49] (FLN) from 2005. After suffering
[00:12:52] a severe stroke in 2013,
[00:12:56] his health deteriorated, his mobility was reduced, and
[00:12:59] he made only rare appearances. His ability to
[00:13:02] govern the country was regularly questioned,
[00:13:05] and his entourage was accused of exercising considerable
[00:13:09] influence, particularly his brother Sayid
[00:13:12] Bouteflika, while corruption scandals
[00:13:15] erupted. As the 2019 presidential election
[00:13:19] approached, the regime found itself in a deadlock to
[00:13:22] designate an adequate successor, which pushed the
[00:13:25] FLN leaders to consider postponing the election and
[00:13:29] keeping Bouteflika in power during this transitional
[00:13:33] period. These circumstances led to the emergence of large
[00:13:38] state's decision to renounce seeking a 5th term and to leave
[00:13:42] the El Mouradia palace 20 years after his accession to the
[00:13:45] presidency. Retired from public life, Abdelaziz Bouteflika
[00:13:49] died on September 17, 2021, around 9 p.m.
[00:13:53] at his residence in Zéralda, following a cardiac arrest at the age of
[00:13:57] 84, two years
[00:14:00] Algeria. His death was announced by the presidency of the
[00:14:03] Algerian Republic via public television, but his
[00:14:07] death was not the subject of a day of mourning, unlike former
[00:14:11] presidents Ahmed Ben Bella and Chadli Bendjedid, for whom Abdelaziz
[00:14:14] Bouteflika had declared in 2012 eight days of
[00:14:18] national mourning with official and popular
[00:14:21] ceremonies during which Bouteflika had participated
[00:14:25] in their funeral procession. On September 19, in the late
[00:14:28] afternoon, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was buried in the
[00:14:31] martyrs' square of the El Alia
[00:14:34] cemetery.
[00:14:37] After these historical notes, let's return to national
[00:14:41] news to talk politics, and say that the Secretary General of the Congolese
[00:14:44] Labor Party, Pierre Moussa, presided last Friday, September
[00:14:48] 18, in Brazzaville, the inaugural meeting of the permanent
[00:14:52] commissions of this party. The stakes are the official launch of the activities of the permanent
[00:14:56] commissions. Let's take stock with Nif Arondi. Nine
[00:15:00] months after the successful holding of its 6th congress, the Congolese
[00:15:03] Labor Party is focusing on action. The inaugural meeting today
[00:15:06] between Secretary General Pierre Moussa and the presidents of the permanent
[00:15:10] commissions of the political bureau marks the official launch of the
[00:15:13] activities of these six commissions, called upon to play a decisive role
[00:15:17] in the conduct and orientations of the party. The 6th ordinary
[00:15:20] congress created permanent commissions of the political
[00:15:23] bureau, whose presidents were
[00:15:26] elected in the wake of it by the
[00:15:29] political bureau. The party's statutes have defined
[00:15:33] the permanent
[00:15:36] leaving it to the political bureau
[00:15:39] to set their organization,
[00:15:43] detailed attributions, and functioning
[00:15:46] through a specific act. This
[00:15:50] act was adopted on August 20,
[00:15:52] 2026, and is made available
[00:15:54] to you. I can already tell you
[00:15:58] it needs to be improved,
[00:16:01] hence the amended version that is submitted to you for
[00:16:05] consolidation in view of the expectations. The party's
[00:16:08] militant base, Pierre Moussa, exhorted the commission
[00:16:11] officials to demonstrate active commitment, dear
[00:16:14] comrades. The creation of the permanent commissions of the political
[00:16:18] bureau has aroused strong expectations
[00:16:21] in public opinion and more
[00:16:24] particularly within our militant
[00:16:26] base. We must therefore work to
[00:16:30] meet the scale of these
[00:16:32] expectations. Today's meeting, beyond
[00:16:36] a simple initial contact, is a
[00:16:38] preparatory moment for the operationalization
[00:16:41] of these tools that the party
[00:16:43] has adopted to play its role as a spur to
[00:16:49] action, but
[00:16:52] also to structure actions capable
[00:16:55] of optimizing its functioning.
[00:16:58] The effectiveness of the functioning of the permanent
[00:17:00] commissions is therefore a major
[00:17:03] challenge with regard to the objectives assigned
[00:17:07] to them. The permanent commissions, it should be remembered,
[00:17:10] are the working instruments of the political bureau. Their presidents automatically
[00:17:14] have the rank and prerogatives of the permanent secretary of
[00:17:17] the political bureau. Upcoming news:
[00:17:21] the Denyse Assungueso auditorium of the Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial
[00:17:24] will host next November an international
[00:17:27] colloquium on the place of social and human sciences for
[00:17:31] the understanding of biodiversity and products. So, for this event, the
[00:17:35] Director General of the Brazza Memorial, Madam Belinda
[00:17:38] Eyesa, had a working session yesterday with the organizing
[00:17:41] committee of this colloquium, led by Virginie Kuye
[00:17:45] Moussou, Director General of the Institute of Research in Social
[00:17:48] and Human Sciences. The stakes of this event, which bears the signature
[00:17:52] of Disdon.
[00:17:57] Next November, an international colloquium dedicated to the contribution
[00:18:00] of social and human sciences to the understanding of biodiversity
[00:18:03] and the preservation of nature will take
[00:18:07] place at the Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial, a major
[00:18:11] scientific event that aims to bring together a wide range of
[00:18:14] researchers and specialists to foster the exchange of
[00:18:17] experiences and deepen reflection on the role of social and human
[00:18:21] sciences in the knowledge and preservation of biodiversity
[00:18:25] at a time when humanity is already feeling the effects of climate
[00:18:28] change. Mrs. Belinda Essa, General Director of the Pierre
[00:18:31] Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial, Dr. Virginie Kuyimusu, Director
[00:18:35] General of the Institute of Research in Social and Human Sciences, came
[00:18:39] to discuss the final organizational adjustments for this major
[00:18:42] scientific event, which includes practical workshops and scientific
[00:18:46] education conferences. We are in the midst of preparations for an international
[00:18:50] colloquium that will take place
[00:18:52] here at
[00:18:54] the memorial and whose theme is
[00:18:58] uh the place or the
[00:19:02] contribution of social and human sciences to the
[00:19:05] understanding of biodiversity and