1. Posted on Monday 7 June 2010 - 12:07

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   AfricaNews Monitoring Team Credit: BBC

   The head of police in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been suspended following the death of a human rights activist in that country, officials say. Three police officers have also been arrested and the president, Joseph Kabila is determined to resolve the case, the interior minister said.

   

   Floribert Chebeya, head of the group Voix des Sans Voix, was found dead in his car near Kinshasa last week.
   He had reportedly been due to meet the police chief that evening.
   
   Both the police and Voix des Sans Voix have said the meeting never took place.
   
   Activists say Mr Chebeya had received regular threats over the last 20 years.
   
   Last Friday, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an independent inquiry into the incident. The government has ordered its own investigation.
   
   In a statement read out on television, Interior Minister Adolphe Lumanu said on Sunday that President Kabila was "determined that all light be shed" on Chebeya's killing.
   
   "To allow the enquiry to be conducted smoothly, the national defence council decided as a precaution to suspend inspector general John Numbi," the statement said.
   
   DR Congo is struggling to recover from years of civil war and insecurity. The UN has about 20,000 peacekeepers there.
   
   

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1. Posted on Tuesday 22 June 2010 13:50

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   severin nsenga

   

   severin nsenga
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   Lid sinds June 2010
   lubumbashi

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   bonjour
   les enquêtes doivent se faire mais tout monde sait que, sans attaquer les autorités de mon pays, que les enquêtes ne vont presque nul part.
   je suis content que le chef de l'état lui même s'y soit impliqué; espérons qu'en arrêtant le chef de la police, avec qui M. Chebeya devrait s'entretenir, cela pourra résoudre le problème de la police
   Merci

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