Denis Sassou Nguesso, re-elected on 15 March, is due to be inaugurated for his fifth consecutive term as president of Congo-Brazzaville (the Republic of the Congo, a central African nation not to be confused with the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo) at a ceremony in Brazzaville on 16 April. As a new government is expected to be formed shortly after, civil society organisations are pressing for forest governance to be placed at the top of the incoming administration's agenda. Groups including the Observatoire congolais des droits humains and the Rencontre pour la paix et les droits humains are calling for stronger implementation of international forest commitments such as REDD+ and CAFI, greater transparency in logging and taxation, and new laws protecting human rights defenders and guaranteeing public access to information.