Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Nationalised private stations renamed: Canal Kin becomes RTNC 3 and RTKM becomes RTNC 4
(JED/IFEX) – According to information broadcast on the public station RTNC (Congolese National Radio-television, Radiotélévision nationale congolaise), Minister of Communications Dominique Sakombi Inongo has renamed the private stations Canal Kin and RTKM (Radiotélévision Kin-Malebo). Both stations were recently nationalised. Canal Kin has been renamed RTNC 3. The television station is owned by the Bemba Saolona […]
Correction: Journalist forced to go underground in Lubumbashi
(JED/IFEX) – Please disregard our 30 October 2000 alert concerning the Lubumbashi newspaper “La Cheminée”. Please refer to the following alert instead. JED regrets the error. Théodore Mwila Kasongo, a journalist with the weekly newspaper “La Cheminée”, based in Lubumbashi (county town of Katanga province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s south-east), has been forced […]
Journalist forced to go underground in Lubumbashi
(JED/IFEX) – Shimba Ndala, publisher of the weekly newspaper “La Cheminée”, based in Lubumbashi (county town of Katanga province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s south-east), has been forced to go underground. According to information received by JED, Ndala is being actively sought by National Information Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements, ANR) officers. The motive […]
Police bar RTKM journalists from entering studios
(JED/IFEX) – Rapid Intervention Police (Police d’intervention rapide, PIR) officers have barred RTKM (Radiotélévision Kin-Malebo) journalists and employees from entering the station’s studios and newsroom since Sunday 29 October 2000. PIR officers were stationed outside the offices of the station in the early hours of 29 October. The formerly private station was recently nationalised by […]
Journalist with weekly “L’Alarme” detained for seven days in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Marie Basa Ndjankolo, a journalist with “L’Alarme”, a Kinshasa weekly, was arrested on Tuesday 17 October 2000, close to the University of Kinshasa, by a group of ten Congolese Armed Forces (FAC) soldiers. He was taken to a military base in “Joli-Site” district, eighty kilometres from Kinshasa, on the road to Matadi (Lower-Congo […]
Private radio station allowed to broadcast anew
(JED/IFEX) – Through a 24 October 2000 decree, Minister of Communications Dominique Sakombi Inongo authorised Radio Sentinelle to broadcast anew. The radio station is owned by the independent Cité Béthel Church. The Ministry of Communications explained that the radio station’s management had “put themselves in line with the law”. The station only broadcasts Christian programmes. […]
Twenty-two public radio-television journalists and employees reinstated
(JED/IFEX) – Further to a 23 October 2000 decision by José Kajangwa, president-managing director of Congolese National Radio-television (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC, a public station), twenty-two journalists and employees of this state-owned company were reinstated to their former ranks and positions and authorised to return to work. Their reinstatement follows the recommendations of a special […]
RTKM director-general and information director dismissed
(JED/IFEX) – In a 21 October 2000 letter signed by Ministry of Communications’ Secretary-General Bagalama Ka Yange and addressed to Lumbana Kapasa and Charles Dimandja Wembi, RTKM (Radiotélévision Kin Malebo) director-general and information director, respectively, Minister of Communications Dominique Sakombi Inongo announced their dismissal. “Following everything that has taken place, and on order of His […]