Alongside the media Jeune Afrique and Actualité.cd for which Stanis Bujakera works, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is once again calling for the release of the Congolese journalist, who has been held since 8 September 2023. A number of prominent figures have joined the public campaign. A new hearing in the case will take place in Kinshasa on 12 January.
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Many clues about what the enigmatic President Félix Tshisekedi is really about seem hidden in the secret deal his government signed on 24 February with notorious Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler. Gertler was former Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) president Joseph Kabila’s closest business crony. The memorandum of understanding between Tshisekedi and Gertler would allow the DRC to ‘recover the disputed mining and oil assets’ of Gertler’s company Ventura, worth more than US$2 billion, the DRC said.