Kammala wannan jumla: Sassou Nguesso ya sake samun iko a karshen mulkin
Yuni-Oktoba 1997 yakin basasa kuma ya nada Okemba a matsayin mai ba da shawara na musamman ga Shugaban kasa a ƙarshen 1997. Okemba, wanda dan uwan Sassou Nguesso ne, an dauke shi a ƙarshen 1990s a matsayin shugaban dangin dangin da ke kewaye da Sassou Nguesso, wanda ya yi gasa don tasiri mai girma tare da sauran dangin da ke cikin kabilun Mbochi na Sassou Nguesso.