[1][2][3] The civil war ended in victory for the Cobras on 15 October 1997; President Pascal Lissouba was ousted and Sassou Nguesso regained control of the country.
[4] Matsanga was appointed as Security Adviser to the Minister of the Interior after the 1997 civil war,[2][5] but he proved difficult to control despite his official post.
[9][10][11] Matsanga, who had acquired a fearsome reputation due to his militia activities over the years, was rumored to have died in Congo-Kinshasa after the 2002 events.
However, he received some attention in July 2005 by intervening in a parking dispute in Brazzaville's Bacongo district and helping to escort one of the individuals to a police station.
[12] In the June 2007 parliamentary election, Matsanga stood as an independent candidate for the fourth constituency of Makélékélé, a district of Brazzaville.
In the first round, he placed first with 30.65% of the vote; Hellot Matson Mampouya, the candidate of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI), was close behind with 29.79%.
[17] In a 2011 interview, Matsanga expressed disillusionment with politics and said that he did not intend to run for re-election to the National Assembly in the 2012 parliamentary election.