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For most of the 1990s, conflicts between the National army and militias existed in thesouth of Congo Brazzaville. However, it’snot before 2007 that the last pockets of instability in the Pool were suppressed. Since,the country knows a political and securitystabilization. The oil produced revenueallows the State headed by Sassou Nguessoto invest in infrastructures and to developdecentralization. But these only concernthe most strategic regions (Pointe Noire,Brazzaville and its surroundings), whileother regions remain very poorly invested inby the State. International organizations tryto remediate the absence of investment withprograms more or less well-fitted to the localsituations. Finally, there are some abandoned zones that while heavily damaged bythe conflict only improve thanks to the willand creativity of the populations. Only a several years-long field studyallowed to present this first synthesis onpost-conflict situations in the Republic ofCongo Brazzaville.