Reporters Without Borders is worried about Tumba Lumembu, a journalist who has been detained in Kinshasa for the past six weeks, and urges the authorities to free him. A reporter for the newspaper La Tempête des Tropiques, he was abducted on a street in the capital on 15 September by members of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR).
When President Joseph Kabila attended a Francophonie Summit news conference in Montreux on 24 October, a Reporters Without Borders representative asked him about the fate of journalists arrested by the ANR. He replied that he was "unaware of a journalist or journalists who have been arrested."
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