[2] Stations from nearby Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, can be received in Brazzaville and rebroadcasts of the BBC (103.8 FM), Radio France Internationale, and the Voice of America are available.
The law makes certain types of speech illegal, including incitement of ethnic hatred, violence, or civil war.
[2] Succeeding Congo's independence, the constitutions of former presidents Abbe Fulbert Youlou (1960-1963) and Alphonse Massamba-Debat (1963–68) offered these guaranteed freedoms.
Post-colonial administrations in practice relied on implicit bans and seize of images distributed by Congolese revolutionaries and oppositions.
Occasional success in overcoming newspaper censorship can be seen in the case of La Semaine Africaine, which consistently expresses notable messages representative of the ‘revolutionary press’.