US Embassy Congo Brazzaville New and Present

Here is a picture of our new Embassy which will open January 20, 2009. Below is a picture of where the offices are currently located, in the BDEAC Building (Development Bank of the Countries of Central Africa), as of March 2006. Our original Embassy was looted and damaged in the civil war in 1997, and operated for years across the River Congo in Kinshasa. Embassy staff is planning a big opening and open house, and the U.S. flag will fly over its Embassy building here for the first time since 1997.