The coat of arms of the Republic of the Congo has a shield with a rampant red lion holding a torch. The background color of the shield is gold with a green, wavy, horizontal stripe along the middle. A golden crown sits above the shield. Two large African war elephants support the shield. A banner with the national motto 'Unité Travail Progrès' ('Unity, Work, Progress' translated from 'La Congolaise') is draped from a bar supporting the war elephants. The arms were adopted in 1960 and readopted in 1991 after having been replaced with a simpler, unheraldic symbol during the People's Republic of the Congo era from 1970–1991. The coat of arms is described as follows: Or, a fess wavy vert, a lion gules, armed and langued vert, overall, maintaining a torch sable flamed gules. A special forest crown. The shield is supported by two war elephants sable tusked or, issuing from the flanks of the shield and sustained on a tree trunk gules. On the circle or of the forest crown: 'République du Congo' in letters gules upon a scroll or. Motto 'Unité-Travail-Progrès' in letters gules upon a scroll or. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)