(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. […]
(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.
Radio Sentinelle is one of the ten radio and television stations which were banned from broadcasting in the Democratic Republic of Congo further to a 14 September decision by Minister Sakombi.
Most recently, the minister of communications lifted the bans on Elikya Catholic radio station, Radio Kintuadi (owned by the Kimbanguiste Church) and Télévision Antenne A television station.
Canal Kin 1 and Canal Kin 2, as well as RTKM (Radiotélévision Kin Malebo), were placed under President Laurent-Désiré Kabila’s government’s supervision, and have had new programming schedules imposed on them. RTKM directors were also dismissed.
