Congo-Kinshasa: Editor of Private Newspaper Abducted, Detained in Secret Location Following Publication of Articles About President's Health

Journaliste En Danger (Kinshasa)

11 March 2008

On 7 March 2008, Nsimba Embete Ponte, the editor of the privately-owned twice-weekly newspaper "L'interprète", published in Kinshasa, was abducted by unidentified armed men near a bus stop in the Kinshasa neighbourhood of Masina.