Radio Okapi journo killed

2008-11-22 14:13

Kinshasa - A Congolese journalist with the UN-sponsored Radio Okapi was shot dead late Friday at Bukavu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the radio said on Saturday.

Didace Namujimbo "was returning home last night. He was shot down a few metres from his home," the radio's editor-in-chief Leonard Mulamba told AFP.

Namujimbo was shot in the head, Mulamba said in the capital Kinshasa. No details were available about motives or who had ordered the murder.

On June 13 last year another Radio Okapi journalist, Serge Maheshe, was killed in Bukavu, the capital of Sud-Kivu province.

Many armed groups, pro-government militias and rebels, operate in the unstable region which borders on Nord-Kivu, scene of fighting for nearly three months between the army and rebels of Laurent Nkunda.

- AFP