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 | | The first president of Congo-Brazzaville was an absurd, de-frocked Catholic priest, abbé Fulbert Youlou, who was deposed by a military coup as early as 1963, three years after the country´s independence. |
 | | Youlou was ridiculed by the outside world, but it seems that he was in effect a religious revolutionary, promising the return of a resistance leader who had been using the Christian rhetoric to incite the Congolese masses long before independence. |
 | | During the summer of 1997, the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, across the Congo river from Kinshasa, the capital of the other, formerly Belgian, Congo, was shot to pieces, when the democratically elected president Pascal Lissouba was attacked by a former military dictator, Denis Sassou-N´Gessou. |
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