Just-In: Former President Dies At 88 ~Thecitypulsenews“President Lissouba passed away after an illness,” party spokesman and MP Honore Sayi said.Lissouba died in Perpignan, southwestern France, he said.He was president of the Republic of Congo — also called Congo-Brazzaville, to distinguish it from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — from 1992 to 1997.He fled the country after being overthrown in a civil war by the current president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, who had lost the country’s first multi-party elections in 1992.(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 27, 1992 former Congolese president Pascal Lissouba gives a press conference in Abidjan. – Former Congolese President Pascal Lissouba’s party announced on August 24, 2020 that he died in France.(Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)Source: Agency, AFP