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Sunday, May 19, 2013

DRC: Women nominated their delegates to the CENI

Organizations defending women's rights filed, Saturday, May 18, at the office of the National Assembly a list of their three delegates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This is Jeanne Hortense Nzuzi Tshamba, Grace and Mrs. Lula Amba Tamuzinda. The first two candidates are in Kinshasa while the third is the interior.Of these three names the National Assembly chooses one taking into account gender and regional representation to be part of the CENI. Me Angela Konde Yuya told Radio Okapi how both candidates were elected in Kinshasa:"In the exercise of the vote in the Plenary Meeting of May 16, three candidates were elected to the five names were submitted.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The journalist Guylain Chanjabo of Radio Canal Revelation of Bunia was found dead this Friday, May 17

The journalist Guylain Chanjabo of Radio Canal Revelation of Bunia was found dead this Friday, May 17 in Ngezi river 5 km from the city center. The people who discovered the body alerted the chief of the neighborhood and the police. A crowd of onlookers in tears was where the body was discovered. The journalist had been missing for twelve days.
Informed, relatives and family of Guylain Chanjabo rushed to the place and identified the journalist.
"I am abashed of wickedness. We just discovered the decaying body of journalist Guylain Chanjabo we just end up in the river Ngezi. The body is decaying. It is frayed. Swollen face. I brought the doctors. They are adamant that our reporter was strangled, "says Eka Rustic Avo, the assistant commissioner of Ituri.
The journalist was buried in a pit near the river. The state of decomposition of the body could not afford to take it further, said members of the Red Cross who were buried.