Travelblog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Dry land for the first time in a monthWell if you can really call it that not much of the experience I would normally look for but the chance came up to head into town via the FRC Fast Rescue craft so I took it to go and have a pizza in Pointe Noire.Having been on something that moves constantly with the motion of the ocean since 26th November I ended up on a boat anchored in Pointe Noire...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
BOLLORE African Logistics has been pre-selected to take over management of the container terminal at the Congo-Brazzaville port of Pointe Noire.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
... of the Company's planned Kouilou Potash Project in the Mengo area near the ROC port city of Pointe-Noire, including key fiscal and development terms. The PIA will proceed through a process of incorporation into a Law, which will need the approval of the ROC Parliament following its submission by the ROC Government and publication in the Official Gazette of the ROC. Until these processes...
Unicef (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
POINTE NOIRE, Republic of Congo, 22 December 2008 – Congo has launched a 'roadmap' to reduce the prevalence of iron-deficiency anaemia among children and pregnant women by least 30 per cent by 2013. The goal is to be achieved through the fortification of wheat flour with iron and folate.
Trendfo.com Hottest Trends (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
(scoop.co.nz) - December 16, 2008Geography Area: 342,000 sq. km (132,000 sq. mi.); slightly larger than New Mexico. Cities: Capital --Brazzaville (pop. 800,000). Other cities --Pointe-Noire (450,000), Dolisie (150,000). (calendarlive.com) - December 16, 2008LISTEN TO LINUS: The beloved animated holiday special "A Charlie Brown Christmas" returns tonight at 8 on ABC. (tomahjournal.com) - December...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Guy-Blaise Bakala, a timber worker in Pointe-Noire in the south of the Republic of Congo, has been sleeping badly since his bosses first announced they would have to let some workers go because the financial crisis is hitting the key timber sector.
