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10 Mar
2009
Press Review of 3 August 2005
Aftermath of the killing of a human rights activist in Bukavu, insecurity in Kinshasa and suspension of activities by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in Ituri are the major subjects broached by today's local press.
'Human Rights NGOs Mobilising and Denouncing,' headlines La Référence Plus, further reporting, 'Leaders of key human rights organisations are due to hold a memorial service for late Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi both in Kinshasa and in a number of Eastern DRC's towns this Wednesday 3 August 2005.'
L'Avenir for its part reports, 'Bukavu in Turmoil.' The paper echoes the coordinator of Bukavu-based catholic schools' address at a funeral, 'The murderer of Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi are probably among us at the moment: Let them look at us in the face; who are they going to kill next. All we know is that they will never destroy the truth.' The paper also publishes a communiqué from Belgium Embassy condemning the murder of Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi.
'Brussels calls on Kinshasa,' reports Le Phare, quoting the communiqué issued by the Belgian Embassy that 'De Gucht calls for serious investigations and insists that the guilty must effectively be punished. That will further contribute to the fight against impunity, a plague that is the root cause of an unspeakable poverty experienced by Congolese people.'
On another subject, Le Phare reports, 'Hold-up gangsters arrested at Ndolo.' 'The gang leader, a soldier of Army Air Force said, other mobsters continue operating in the same stronghold they share with rival armed groups without clashing.'
'MSF suspends activities in Ituri' notes L'Observateur on its front page, quoting a communiqué issued by an organisation, 'Assistance brought to 100,000 displaced in the district is today little or, and in some places, non existent.' For the paper, 'MSF indirectly made double acknowledgement of failure: the majority of civilians do not get any effective protection. They do not have adequate access to humanitarian help.'
In another development, Le Potentiel denounces, 'diamond worth US$156 million (are) fraudulently exported' the paper reports an investigation led by a British NGO Global Witness, which, Le Potentiel says, ' 'revived serious polemics around fraudulent exports of diamond from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Lebanon through Congo-Brazzaville.'
L'Avenir for its part reports, 'Bukavu in Turmoil.' The paper echoes the coordinator of Bukavu-based catholic schools' address at a funeral, 'The murderer of Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi are probably among us at the moment: Let them look at us in the face; who are they going to kill next. All we know is that they will never destroy the truth.' The paper also publishes a communiqué from Belgium Embassy condemning the murder of Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi.
'Brussels calls on Kinshasa,' reports Le Phare, quoting the communiqué issued by the Belgian Embassy that 'De Gucht calls for serious investigations and insists that the guilty must effectively be punished. That will further contribute to the fight against impunity, a plague that is the root cause of an unspeakable poverty experienced by Congolese people.'
On another subject, Le Phare reports, 'Hold-up gangsters arrested at Ndolo.' 'The gang leader, a soldier of Army Air Force said, other mobsters continue operating in the same stronghold they share with rival armed groups without clashing.'
'MSF suspends activities in Ituri' notes L'Observateur on its front page, quoting a communiqué issued by an organisation, 'Assistance brought to 100,000 displaced in the district is today little or, and in some places, non existent.' For the paper, 'MSF indirectly made double acknowledgement of failure: the majority of civilians do not get any effective protection. They do not have adequate access to humanitarian help.'
In another development, Le Potentiel denounces, 'diamond worth US$156 million (are) fraudulently exported' the paper reports an investigation led by a British NGO Global Witness, which, Le Potentiel says, ' 'revived serious polemics around fraudulent exports of diamond from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Lebanon through Congo-Brazzaville.'
