President Lissouba dies at 88

Pascal Lissouba has been reported dead. The former Congolese President died in France on Monday at the age of 88, his Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UADS) party said.

“President Lissouba passed away after an illness,” party spokesman and MP Honore Sayi said. According to the report Lissouba died in Perpignan, Southwestern France, he said.

Pascal Lissouba was president of the Republic of Congo — also called Congo-Brazzaville, to distinguish it from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — from 1992 to 1997.Meanwhile, Lissouba fled the country after being overthrown in a civil war by the current president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, who had lost the country’s first multi-party elections in 1992.