Congolese media are reporting that journalist and academic Samuel Sirasi, who had gone missing last week, has been found alive but unwell.
Members of DR Congo National Press Union want the authorities to grant him protection and find the culprits, reports news site DRC Actu.
The Beni-based journalist went missing in the eastern city of Goma on 4 January, and was found at the weekend near a church in Goma’s Karisimbi district. Locals gave him first aid and alerted organisations that had launched a search for him.
Mr Sirasi’s health was in “very critical condition” at that point, his colleague Jaribu Muliwavyo at the Semuliki University of Beni is quoted as saying.
The journalist is currently being treated at an undisclosed hospital, according to Congolese media reports.
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Aid agencies halt work in Tigray zone after air strike
Aid agencies have suspended operations in a zone of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region where dozens of people were reportedly killed in an air strike, the UN says.
“The ongoing threats of drone strikes” left them little choice but to halt activities, the UN’s humanitarian agency Ocha has said.
Aid workers over the weekend said that 56 people had been killed and dozens more injured in an airstrike on a camp for the displaced.
It came as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesman, Getachew Reda, accused Eritrea of launching fresh attacks against the group’s fighters. It has not responded to the accusations.
Ethiopian government forces, bolstered by Eritrean troops, have been fighting rebels in Tigray for more than a year in a war that has killed thousands of people.
Source: BBC
