Brazzaville’s new examinations directorate falls behind schedule
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on La Semaine Africaine
Brazzaville’s new Directorate of General and Technical Examinations and Competitions, built with Chinese support over approximately 6,000 square metres, is to bring together state examination organisation services. Work started in early 2025 but is behind schedule, making completion by the planned date difficult, according to La Semaine Africaine.
Construction of the new Directorate of General and Technical Examinations and Competitions in Brazzaville may not meet the planned 18-month deadline. Work, which began at the start of 2025 on the former site of the directorate, remains slowed by difficulties linked in particular to the marshy nature of the land, according to La Semaine Africaine, citing a worker on the construction site.
The building is being constructed on approximately 6,000 square metres by the Congolese Ministry of Spatial Planning and Major Works, with funding presented as a donation from the Chinese government under the “China Aid for a Shared Future” initiative. The building is to have four floors above a ground floor and house examination archiving and digitisation activities.
The project was announced in January 2020 during an exchange between Anatole Collinet Makosso, then minister of general education and now Prime Minister of Congo, and a Chinese delegation led by building engineer Xiaofeng. The initial plan provided for seven floors, but its modification increased the duration and cost of the work, according to the worker quoted by La Semaine Africaine.
