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Congo’s 2025 Budget Under the Auditors’ Lens
by Patrick Okemba（https://financialcongo.com/writer/pokemba/） October 28, 2026
by Patrick Okemba（https://financialcongo.com/writer/pokemba/） October 28, 2026
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Congo’s 2025 budget goes before the auditors
Congo-Brazzaville’s Court of Audit and Budgetary Discipline appeared before members of the National Assembly on 26 October to present its annual report on the State budget for the 2025 fiscal year. The hearing was held before the Economy, Finance and Budget Execution Oversight Committee, known as Ecofin, chaired by Maurice Mavoungou. It is a recurring step in the annual cycle of public finance oversight, but one that carries weight: it is the moment at which the executive’s handling of the budget is examined by an institution independent of both government and Parliament.
Revenue, spending and debt under review
Presenting on behalf of the Court, its rapporteur Emmanuel Kamba set out the findings and recommendations addressed to both the government and Parliament. Speaking to reporters after the session, he offered a notably favourable reading of the year under review. “We discussed the State budget for the 2025 fiscal year, which was executed by the government in very good conditions,” he said, adding that the exchanges with the committee had covered the general budget “in terms of revenue, expenditure and debt.” According to Kamba, the two sides reached a mutual understanding.
The account of the hearing made public so far does not detail the figures or the specific recommendations contained in the report. Kamba’s verdict on the quality of execution therefore stands as the Court’s headline message, while the substance of its observations on revenue, spending and the debt position remains, for now, with the committee members who received the document.
Ecofin chair stresses the Court’s judicial mandate
Maurice Mavoungou placed the hearing within the missions entrusted to the two institutions. Among the Court’s responsibilities, he recalled, is the production of an annual report on the execution of finance laws. He also welcomed the fact that the Court had provided his committee with a document he described as very rich in information.
The chair used the occasion to underline the distinctive place of the audit body in Congo’s control architecture. “We have internal controls, external controls, parliamentary controls and administrative controls, but judicial control is reserved exclusively for this institution, which is independent of both the executive and the legislative branches,” he said. “It should be noted that in most countries, it is the Court of Audit. Here, alongside the Court of Audit, which audits the accounts, there is also a mission of sanctions.”
His remarks came across as encouragement for the institution not to confine itself to reviewing the budget, but to bear in mind the sanctioning dimension of its mandate, which distinguishes the Congolese body from a purely accounting-review model.
The 2025 settlement bill ahead
The hearing also prepares the ground for a key legislative milestone. Parliament has placed the draft settlement law for the 2025 fiscal year on the agenda of its budget session, which is scheduled to close on 23 December. The text is an essential instrument of parliamentary scrutiny over the management of public finances: it sets the final results of the execution of the State budget for 2025, the fiscal year preceding the current one.