19 November 1998

Alert

Journalist missing; feared dead


Incident details

Belmonde Magloire Missinhoun

journalist(s)

missing

(CPJ/IFEX) - On 3 September 1998, Belmonde Magloire Missinhoun, a citizen
of Benin and owner of the financial newspaper "La Pointe Congo", was last
seen when he was arrested shortly after a traffic accident with a military
vehicle in Kinshasa and transported to an unknown location. Police
investigations into the journalist's disappearance have yielded no results
to date. Missinhoun, who is originally from Benin,has lived in Kinshasa for
approxiamtely thirty years. "La Pointe Congo" has not published since the
end of the Mobutu regime, which Missinhoun had close ties with.



**For background to previous harassment of Missinhoun, see IFEX alert of 26
May 1995**






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