Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te hokinga mai o te Perehitini a Denis Sassou Nguesso ki te mana i te
June-October 1997 civil war, a National Reconciliation Forum was held in January 1998; i te mutunga o te huinga, i pootihia a Koumba hei Perehitini o te Kaunihera National Transitional (CNT), he 75 mema mema e mahi ana hei Paremata mo te wa poto, i te 14 o Hanuere 1998. Ahakoa he tangata tonga a Koumba, ko te CNT te nuinga o nga tangata o te raki, i runga i te mana o nga tangata o te raki i raro i a Sassou Nguesso. Ko te tinana, i te waahi mai i te 1998 ki te 2002, i whakaarohia he "tohu rapa whakama".