King Salman Bin Abdelaziz held talks with Republic of Congo (RoC) President Denis Sassou Nguesso at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on 25 March. The doyen of Central African leaders’ three-day visit was aimed at securing Saudi infrastructure investment. Sassou was accompanied by finance minister Calixte Ganongo and the recently-appointed head of heavily-indebted RoC state oil company Société Nationale de Pétrole du Congo (SNPC) Maixent Raoul Ominga.
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