Congo protests against unpaid pensions as gov’t debt balloons

Former telecoms and postal workers in the Republic of Congo say the government is unable to pay them what they are owed.
Money they paid into their pension funds each month has disappeared.
The country has nearly gone bankrupt three times in the past 20 years and has been repeatedly bailed out by the International Monetary Fund, despite being Africa’s third-largest oil producer.

Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports from Brazzaville.

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The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa. To the west lies Gabon; Cameroon to its northwest and the Central African Republic to its northeast; the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southeast and the Angolan exclave of Cabinda to its south; and the Atlantic Ocean to its southwest.
The official language is French. The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. Congo’s economy is heavily dependent on the oil sector.

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