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00:00:00to see in a street corner displayed on a
00:00:02wall or on a plywood board
00:00:05writings like house for rent,
00:00:09one-bedroom apartment, two two-bedroom apartment, tiled ceiling
00:00:13not up to date or or villa for rent
00:00:16and land for sale, these are the works in which
00:00:20liberalization of the real estate agents and brokers excel,
00:00:22whom Congolese locally call "démarcheurs" (fixers). We are
00:00:26in a world where there is everything and illiterates,
00:00:30but he has this good because he has a house to
00:00:33rent, there he has tenants who have moved out and he has written a
00:00:36sign in front of his house, no here is the real estate agency, house for
00:00:40rent, no a fixer or a real estate agent must
00:00:44know the law, the right of prior notice, must know if the deposit
00:00:47is refundable or not to carry out his profession well,
00:00:50like in several countries, Senegal, Côte
00:00:54d'Ivoire, France, Belgium, not to... uh
00:00:58name just these
00:01:02examples. The activity or the profession of
00:01:05real estate agents began informally,
00:01:09so the activity arose from a
00:01:12public simple need, to connect
00:01:14uh a owner uh who
00:01:17was looking for clients to rent his property or
00:01:22Nations Organization took place (following buy his property. At first glance, as noble
00:01:24as this profession seems, which has rendered enormous services to
00:01:28those who had... movable and immovable property to sell or
00:01:32to put up for rent, this
00:01:34young profession is discrediting itself day by
00:01:38day through men of dubious morality who, by
00:01:42their greed, have made life difficult for
00:01:46peaceful citizens who only had to trust
00:01:50real estate agents. Some
00:01:52fixers, in any case, shady ones, are tarnishing the image of those who
00:01:56also work well. But
00:01:59members. This was the quest for most people are generally complaining about fixers, about
00:02:02the behavior they exhibit and a kind of scam they are
00:02:06carrying out, according to the population. I have already been a victim,
00:02:09I was looking for a house, so I spent almost the whole day
00:02:13looking for the house and everything he showed me didn't even
00:02:16correspond to 60% of the descriptions given, given that they must
00:02:19imperatively have the 5000 [francs], this last one managed to show me a house for
00:02:23example still under construction,
00:02:26let's say the owner was away. and that I still had to see it, and when he takes
00:02:30the money for the visit, he makes an appointment for me on such a day, "you will come back to see the house with the
00:02:34owner." To this day, the number doesn't work and he is
00:02:38unavailable, and that's something very astonishing and the population is fed up
00:02:42with that, yes I must admit it because
00:02:45we have, uh,
00:02:49a technical term, we have a word called
00:02:52"laser", meaning the house
00:02:55no longer exists or the house never
00:02:58existed. So. This gentleman who proclaims
00:03:02himself a real estate agent, a "démarcheur", will market
00:03:05a house that never existed or no longer
00:03:08exists, and will scam by extorting money from third
00:03:13demonstrations that resulted in the head of parties, these people who have the need to look for a
00:03:16house there, no. The visit must
00:03:19compensate for a real service. It is for this reason
00:03:23that before the client travels for the visit, he
00:03:27must ask all the questions. Do not travel for the sake of
00:03:30traveling, be demanding, and once you arrive, if what
00:03:35after his resignation from the presidency of was presented to you is not true, well, you don't pay for the
00:03:38visit. If there is a dispute, report it,
00:03:41report it to the police, the
00:03:44gendarmerie, or even the [unknown acronym], what I deplore with these people, they
00:03:48deal with professional intermediaries who
00:03:51don't have an address, thus
00:03:53contributing in some way to these bad practices. Therefore,
00:03:56the big question that users...
00:04:00ask themselves is how to stop this
00:04:03deep-rooted issue. If the state cannot regulate this, for example, with law
00:04:06number 37 on real estate agents, okay, at
00:04:10that time, what does the basic [law] do? It calls all these "démarcheurs",
00:04:14gives them a number or a card like motorcycle taxis. Today, before these
00:04:17motorcycle taxis were not regularized, one could say, but today they have choices, they have
00:04:21numbers, just like with taxis, recently, you saw, there was an operation that
00:04:25had been done, there were numbers, so in case of a problem, just with the number, one can
00:04:29directly hold them accountable.
00:04:34And everything must be done on paper, so the state must regulate them. Most of those
00:04:37who do this activity
00:04:41are far from employment, professional
00:04:44qualification,
00:04:46and there are also young graduates joining the sector,
00:04:50so there's a double challenge,
00:04:53that of supporting the creation of jobs and helping
00:04:57us professionalize at the federation level. We
00:05:00took this step, we went to the supervisory ministry,
00:05:03the Ministry of Construction, Urbanism and Housing
00:05:07uh, to help us professionalize the sector by
00:05:11commissions, regulating practices and we hope that this will happen very
00:05:14quickly when order intervenes in this
00:05:18sector of activity, sellers
00:05:21and buyers will breathe a sigh of
00:05:24relief and the managers of
00:05:27real estate services will testify to the benefits of the
00:05:32national
00:05:33economy.
00:05:37Managers of real estate agencies, their location
00:05:41in Brazzaville. The… of this magazine edition carried the signature
00:05:45of Derick Mackebour. One day, one
00:05:48event, September 20, 1960, September 20,
00:05:512026. Today, exactly 66 years ago, the Republic of
00:05:55Congo became a full member of the United Nations organization. In
00:05:59any case, from 1961 to our days, cooperation between Congo
00:06:02and the UN has intensified. From the accession of the Republic
00:06:05of Congo to 2026, the major events and cooperation between
00:06:09Congo and the UN, the first vocation of this magazine edition. The signature
00:06:13of director
00:06:14Assoula.
00:06:17History tells us that August 15, 1960, was the
00:06:21proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Congo. One month and 5
00:06:24days after the young state's accession to national sovereignty, that is, on
00:06:28September 20, 1960,
00:06:31its admission to the United
00:06:34the adoption by the General Assembly) of Resolution
00:06:371486 concerning the admission of the Republic of
00:06:41Congo to the organization. The United Nations now recognized it as
00:06:44a full member of the council of nations. The Republic of Congo was
00:06:48admitted to the UN on the same day as Cameroon, the Central
00:06:51African Republic, Chad, Congo
00:06:54Léopoldville, current Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon,
00:06:57Côte d'Ivoire, and many other African countries, a
00:07:01group of 17 countries, mostly former French colonies,
00:07:04which allowed the UN to go from
00:07:0782 to 99
00:07:11visibility and a desire to affirm in broad daylight the legal
00:07:15autonomy that animated the young states. For its
00:07:18admission to the UN, our country benefited from the sponsorship of
00:07:21France and Tunisia, two countries admitted to the UN before
00:07:25Congo. At the time, it was a great event and the witness of this
00:07:28admission was named Stéphane Tchitchel as
00:07:31Vice-President of the Council, in charge of Foreign Affairs under the reign of the
00:07:35first President of Congo, Abbot Fulbert Youlou.
00:07:38Stéphane Tchitchel officially made the voice of
00:07:42Congo heard for the first time at the United Nations tribune. For the occasion, he presented our
00:07:46country and its flag, its motto, its area,
00:07:49its president and its population, without forgetting the economic
00:07:53potential. A great absentee from our accession to international
00:07:57sovereignty, President Fulbert Youlou traveled to
00:08:00New York in June 1961, and
00:08:04later met the 35th American President John
00:08:07Fitzgerald Kennedy, and had discussions with Dag Hammarskjöld,
00:08:11the second Secretary-General of the UN in office at
00:08:15the time of the Republic of Congo's admission. In short, the Republic of Congo
00:08:18managed to maintain good relations with
00:08:21the UN to the extent that this cooperation diversified
00:08:24from one year to another. As proof, apart from the fact
00:08:27that our country is represented at the UN, the 15
00:08:30specialized institutions of this organization, the 12
00:08:33partner programs and funds that accompany the Republic of Congo
00:08:37in its long march towards development.
00:08:40développement.
00:08:47are very active in our country. In return, Congo regularly
00:08:50fulfills its statutory obligations and always responds
00:08:54whenever the international community requests
00:08:57it. It is within this framework that Congo sends its
00:09:00troops on peacekeeping missions or humanitarian action
00:09:03under the UN label. In short,
00:09:07cooperation between and Congo is dynamic. The
00:09:11flame lit by the fathers of independence in 1960 was
00:09:15rekindled in recent years by those who understood that no nation can
00:09:19live withdrawn into itself
00:09:21again.
00:09:23Another day, another event: September 17,
00:09:272021, September 17, 2026. Today, it has
00:09:30been exactly 5 years since Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the 5th
00:09:34president of Algeria, passed away at the age of 44. He served from
00:09:38April 27, 1999, to April
00:09:402, 2019,
00:09:43a reign of 19 years, 11
00:09:46months, and 6 days. This is the second
00:09:49evocation of this magazine edition, signed by
00:09:53Christian
00:09:54Ngamialo.
00:09:58Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the man who presided over the destiny of the Algerian
00:10:02Democratic and Popular Republic for 20 years,
00:10:05was born on March 2, 1937, in Oujda,
00:10:08Morocco. Son of Ahmed Bouteflika and Mansouria
00:10:12Ghaoui, Abdelaziz Bouteflika engaged very young in the armed
00:10:16struggle and joined the nationalist maquis of the National Liberation
00:10:19Front who launched the revolt against France. After
00:10:23Algeria's independence, he participated in Ahmed Ben Billa's
00:10:27first government, as Minister of Youth and
00:10:30Sports before being appointed to Foreign Affairs. He
00:10:34retained this portfolio after the overthrow in
00:10:361965 of President Ben Bella by Colonel
00:10:40Houari Boumediene, of whom he was a loyal supporter.
00:10:43Abdelaziz Bouteflika remained at the head of Algerian
00:10:46diplomacy until Houari Boumediene's death in
00:10:501978. He then saw his chances of succeeding him
00:10:54vanish, the military preferring Chadli Bendjedid,
00:10:58the oldest military officer with the highest rank, to the one who
00:11:01seemed better known in international circles than in his own
00:11:05country. The former minister was gradually removed from power
00:11:09and became the target of the new regime. Forced into exile
00:11:12in 1981, he returned to Algeria in
00:11:161987, as Algeria sank into civil
00:11:19war after the interruption of the legislative elections of December
00:11:231991. The outlawing of the Islamic Salvation
00:11:27Front (FIS) and the establishment of a state
00:11:29of emergency. He was offered the leadership of the country by
00:11:33the army but declined the offer. Abdelaziz
00:11:35Bouteflika returned to the Algerian political scene in
00:11:391998 following the resignation of President
00:11:42Liam Zeroual, unable to contain the violence that
00:11:46engulfed the country and to resolve economic
00:11:49problems. 33% of unemployed, 70% of whom were under
00:11:5330 years old. Elections were
00:11:55organized in which the main issue was national
00:11:58reconciliation. Of the six candidates on the list, five
00:12:02withdrew, accusing the sixth, Abdelaziz
00:12:05Bouteflika, of being supported by the army and the media, and
00:12:09also denouncing attempts at fraud. On April 15,
00:12:121999, Abdelaziz Bouteflika controversially won
00:12:16in the first round with 73.8%
00:12:20of the votes after the withdrawal of all candidates whose names
00:12:24were not removed from the ballots. The beginning of his
00:12:28presidency was marked by the end of the civil war. He was
00:12:31re-elected in the first round of the presidential elections of
00:12:342004, 2009, and 2014. He was thus
00:12:38the longest-serving Algerian head of state.
00:12:41He was also Minister of Defense from
00:12:452002 and honorary president of the National Liberation Front
00:12:49(FLN) from 2005. After suffering
00:12:52a severe stroke in 2013,
00:12:56his health deteriorated, his mobility was reduced, and
00:12:59he made only rare appearances. His ability to
00:13:02govern the country was regularly questioned,
00:13:05and his entourage was accused of exercising considerable
00:13:09influence, particularly his brother Sayid
00:13:12Bouteflika, while corruption scandals
00:13:15erupted. As the 2019 presidential election
00:13:19approached, the regime found itself in a deadlock to
00:13:22designate an adequate successor, which pushed the
00:13:25FLN leaders to consider postponing the election and
00:13:29keeping Bouteflika in power during this transitional
00:13:33period. These circumstances led to the emergence of large
00:13:38state's decision to renounce seeking a 5th term and to leave
00:13:42the El Mouradia palace 20 years after his accession to the
00:13:45presidency. Retired from public life, Abdelaziz Bouteflika
00:13:49died on September 17, 2021, around 9 p.m.
00:13:53at his residence in Zéralda, following a cardiac arrest at the age of
00:13:5784, two years
00:14:00Algeria. His death was announced by the presidency of the
00:14:03Algerian Republic via public television, but his
00:14:07death was not the subject of a day of mourning, unlike former
00:14:11presidents Ahmed Ben Bella and Chadli Bendjedid, for whom Abdelaziz
00:14:14Bouteflika had declared in 2012 eight days of
00:14:18national mourning with official and popular
00:14:21ceremonies during which Bouteflika had participated
00:14:25in their funeral procession. On September 19, in the late
00:14:28afternoon, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was buried in the
00:14:31martyrs' square of the El Alia
00:14:34cemetery.
00:14:37After these historical notes, let's return to national
00:14:41news to talk politics, and say that the Secretary General of the Congolese
00:14:44Labor Party, Pierre Moussa, presided last Friday, September
00:14:4818, in Brazzaville, the inaugural meeting of the permanent
00:14:52commissions of this party. The stakes are the official launch of the activities of the permanent
00:14:56commissions. Let's take stock with Nif Arondi. Nine
00:15:00months after the successful holding of its 6th congress, the Congolese
00:15:03Labor Party is focusing on action. The inaugural meeting today
00:15:06between Secretary General Pierre Moussa and the presidents of the permanent
00:15:10commissions of the political bureau marks the official launch of the
00:15:13activities of these six commissions, called upon to play a decisive role
00:15:17in the conduct and orientations of the party. The 6th ordinary
00:15:20congress created permanent commissions of the political
00:15:23bureau, whose presidents were
00:15:26elected in the wake of it by the
00:15:29political bureau. The party's statutes have defined
00:15:33the permanent
00:15:36leaving it to the political bureau
00:15:39to set their organization,
00:15:43detailed attributions, and functioning
00:15:46through a specific act. This
00:15:50act was adopted on August 20,
00:15:522026, and is made available
00:15:54to you. I can already tell you
00:15:58it needs to be improved,
00:16:01hence the amended version that is submitted to you for
00:16:05consolidation in view of the expectations. The party's
00:16:08militant base, Pierre Moussa, exhorted the commission
00:16:11officials to demonstrate active commitment, dear
00:16:14comrades. The creation of the permanent commissions of the political
00:16:18bureau has aroused strong expectations
00:16:21in public opinion and more
00:16:24particularly within our militant
00:16:26base. We must therefore work to
00:16:30meet the scale of these
00:16:32expectations. Today's meeting, beyond
00:16:36a simple initial contact, is a
00:16:38preparatory moment for the operationalization
00:16:41of these tools that the party
00:16:43has adopted to play its role as a spur to
00:16:49action, but
00:16:52also to structure actions capable
00:16:55of optimizing its functioning.
00:16:58The effectiveness of the functioning of the permanent
00:17:00commissions is therefore a major
00:17:03challenge with regard to the objectives assigned
00:17:07to them. The permanent commissions, it should be remembered,
00:17:10are the working instruments of the political bureau. Their presidents automatically
00:17:14have the rank and prerogatives of the permanent secretary of
00:17:17the political bureau. Upcoming news:
00:17:21the Denyse Assungueso auditorium of the Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial
00:17:24will host next November an international
00:17:27colloquium on the place of social and human sciences for
00:17:31the understanding of biodiversity and products. So, for this event, the
00:17:35Director General of the Brazza Memorial, Madam Belinda
00:17:38Eyesa, had a working session yesterday with the organizing
00:17:41committee of this colloquium, led by Virginie Kuye
00:17:45Moussou, Director General of the Institute of Research in Social
00:17:48and Human Sciences. The stakes of this event, which bears the signature
00:17:52of Disdon.
00:17:57Next November, an international colloquium dedicated to the contribution
00:18:00of social and human sciences to the understanding of biodiversity
00:18:03and the preservation of nature will take
00:18:07place at the Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial, a major
00:18:11scientific event that aims to bring together a wide range of
00:18:14researchers and specialists to foster the exchange of
00:18:17experiences and deepen reflection on the role of social and human
00:18:21sciences in the knowledge and preservation of biodiversity
00:18:25at a time when humanity is already feeling the effects of climate
00:18:28change. Mrs. Belinda Essa, General Director of the Pierre
00:18:31Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial, Dr. Virginie Kuyimusu, Director
00:18:35General of the Institute of Research in Social and Human Sciences, came
00:18:39to discuss the final organizational adjustments for this major
00:18:42scientific event, which includes practical workshops and scientific
00:18:46education conferences. We are in the midst of preparations for an international
00:18:50colloquium that will take place
00:18:52here at
00:18:54the memorial and whose theme is
00:18:58uh the place or the
00:19:02contribution of social and human sciences to the
00:19:05understanding of biodiversity and