Working for Peace, Prosperity and Conservation in Africa and beyond
Our Goal
To develop initiatives which support African leaders in meeting some of the key challenges facing the continent, including sustainable development, health, conservation and conflict prevention, and bring countries and people together in peaceful cooperation.
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Our people
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Our Activities
The Foundation operates as both catalyst and advocate, generating ideas and initiatives and using its network of advisers and contacts to seek high level support and buy-in. It works with its partners to develop and implement its initiatives.
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The traffic in falsified medicines
Since 2017, the Foundation has been committed to helping tackle the growing problem of substandard and falsified medicines in Africa. It recently launched the Lomé Initiative.
Sustainable Development in the Congo Basin
In 2016 the Foundation devised a major sustainable development initiative, the Congo Basin Blue Fund, which is being taken forward by more than a dozen African countries and has been endorsed by the African Union as one of its climate change priorities. It is currently the subject of a major feasibility study under UNDP auspices.
Conflict Prevention
At a meeting in Dakar in May 2018, the Foundation brought together Libyans from across the political spectrum to start an intra-Libyan dialogue. This dialogue is designed to promote rapprochement and reconciliation among the Libyans themselves, which is vital if international negotiations on a political settlement are to succeed.
Elephant Protection Work
Working with the NGO Stop Ivory,
we are promoting the Elephant Protection Initiative in order to stop poaching and halt the illegal trade in ivory.
News & events
Kabine Komara alerts viewers about the scourge of fake med…
Actualités
Kabine Komara, member of the Foundation's Advisory Board, was invited by the TV show "Et si ... vous me disiez toute la vérité" presented by Denise Epoté on channel TV5 Monde. This was an opportunity to alert viewers about the scourge of fake medicines in Africa. Watch the video here...
11-02-2020
Publication de l'article "Jean-Yves Ollivier, celui p…
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Amara Essy, homme politique et diplomate ivoirien membre du Conseil Consultatif de la Fondation, a publié le 2 février 2020 dans la Revue de l'Afrique un portrait de Jean-Yves Ollivier et son rôle historique en Afrique. Retrouvez l'article via le lien suivant : https://revue-afrique.com/jean-y...
06-02-2020
The Foundation welcomes three new Advisory Board members
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The Brazzaville Foundation is delighted to announce that Dr Joyce Banda, the former President of Malawi, Mr Jan Kohout, the former Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, and Mr Ruben Vardanyan, the Armenian philanthropist and businessman, have agreed to join the Foundation's Advisor...
24-01-2020
Cecilia Attias criticises the traffic in falsified medicin…
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On Sunday 22nd of December, the French journal Le Parisien published an op-ed signed by Cecilia Attias, an Advisory Board member of the Brazzaville Foundation, in which she criticised the limited awareness and action taken to stop the traffic in falsified medicines, a major human and public health c...
07-01-2020
Press release launching the Lomé Initiative
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A press release launching the Lomé Initiative issued today. On 17 and 18th January, six African Heads of State will meet in Lomé, Togo, to sign a political declaration and a legally binding agreement which will commit them to introduce criminal legislation specifically designed to suppress...
22-10-2019
Jean-Yves Ollivier at the Rhodes Forum 2019
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At the Rhodes Forum 2019, Jean-Yves Ollivier, Chairman of the Foundation, highlitghted the importance of philanthropy in today's world. Listen to his interview via this link: https://youtu.be/IMpIymWBdpM
14-10-2019
The Foundation's work on falsified medicines mentioned at …
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Speaking during the 74th UN General Assembly debate, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Congo, Jean-Claude Gakosso, raised the dangers of fake medicines and referred to the Foundation's work on that issue. Listen to his speech at the following link : https://www.youtube.com...
02-10-2019
Substandard and falsified medicines
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Learn more about the Foundation's work on substandard and falsified medicines.
25-09-2019
Creation of the Leadership group for the substandard and f…
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The Foundation's Advisory Board members, Kgalema Motlanthe, Kabiné Komara, Amama Mbabazi and Jean-Louis Bruguière, have accepted the Chairman's invitation to form a Leadership Group to help steer the Foundation's work on substandard and falsified medicines, including the Lomé Initiative. The former ...
19-09-2019
The Brazzaville Foundation's Chairman meets Russian Deputy…
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov on Friday received Jean-Yves Olivier, the founder and Chairman of The Brazzaville Foundation, an international NGO specializing in peacekeeping activities in Africa, the Russian Fo...
17-09-2019
The fight against fake medicines
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The Foundation organised a working meeting, on the 3rd of September in Paris, with Congo Brazzaville, Niger, Senegal and Togo's representatives to discuss the new initiative on falsified medicines.
04-09-2019
Interview on the prospects for a continuation of the inter…
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Recently interviewed by the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil about the prospects of a second round of the Inter-Libyan dialogue in Dakar, our Chairman, Jean-Yves Ollivier, said « All sides are encouraging me to hold another Dakar meeting. However, this is only possible if it is as part of prepa...
27-08-2019
