Joël Mumbere Musavuli

Year: 2021

Nationality: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Killed by: Military Officials,Political Group

Location: Mambasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Press organization: Radio Télévision Communautaire de Babombi

What's Joël Mumbere Musavuli's story?

On the night of August 13, 2021, three unidentified assailants killed Joël Mumbere Musavuli, director of the privately owned broadcaster Radio Télé Communautaire Babombi (RTCB), in his home in Bucha-Kenya village in Mambasa Territory, an administrative region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s restive northeastern Ituri province, according to a report by the French public broadcaster Radio France Internationale, a statement by the Observatory of Press Freedom in Africa (OLPA), a press freedom group, Katembo Sekanabo Samuel-Don, a former colleague and cousin of Musavuli’s, who spoke to CPJ via WhatsApp, and Syambithe Evelyne Masika, the journalist’s wife, who spoke to CPJ via phone.

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