What is Denis Sassou Nguesso?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Denis Sassou Nguesso | image = Denis Sassou Nguesso 2014.jpg | caption = Denis Sassou Nguesso in 2014 at The White House. | office = [[President of the Republic of the Congo]] | primeminister = [[Isidore Mvouba]]<br />[[Clément Mouamba]]<br />[[Anatole Collinet Makosso]] | term_start = 25 October 1997 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Pascal Lissouba]] | successor = | primeminister1 = [[Louis Sylvain Goma]]<br />[[Ange Édouard Poungui]]<br />[[Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty]]<br />[[Pierre Moussa]]<br />[[Louis Sylvain Goma]]<br />[[André Milongo]] | term_start1 = 8 February 1979 | term_end1 = 31 August 1992 | predecessor1 = [[Jean-Pierre Thystère Tchicaya]] {{small|(Acting)}} | successor1 = [[Pascal Lissouba]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|11|23}} | birth_place = [[Edou]], [[French Equatorial Africa]] {{small|(now [[Republic of the Congo|Congo-Brazzaville]])}} | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Congolese Party of Labour]] (1969–present) | spouse = {{marriage|[[Antoinette Sassou Nguesso]]|1969}} |allegiance= [[Republic of the Congo]] |branch= [[Armed Forces of the Republic of the Congo]] |rank= [[General]] }} '''Denis Sassou Nguesso ''' (born 23 November 1943) is a [[Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] politician. He became the [[President]] of the [[Republic of the Congo]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/inpractice/lawreports/view=details.law?GAZETTEINPRACTICEID=357873 |title=Law reports |publisher=The Law Gazette |access-date=2012-12-27 |archive-date=2007-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911051711/http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/inpractice/lawreports/view%3Ddetails.law?GAZETTEINPRACTICEID=357873 |url-status=dead }}</ref> since 1997. He was also President of the Republic of the Congo from 1979 to 1992. In October 2021, Denis Sassou N'Guesso wa